Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  the ends don’t justify the means.

  Hitler experimented on hundreds of thousands of Jews and the medical world benefited from it greatly.

  does that mean you’re going to nuance the Nazi regime because they “did some good”?

  no amount of good is worth the ounce of evil used to make it.

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  • Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hate billionaires as much as the next gal, but I think comparing Bill Gates to Hitler is a bit extreme

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Welcome to Lemmy, heh.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I didn’t compare them, but in your mind you understood it that way.

      I used Hitler as an example, an extreme one, but still an example of “the ends justify the means”.

      could have use any number of examples, but I went with one I thought everyone could relate to. clearly I miscalculated the selfishness of modern day philosophies.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He is not a good person. But the foundation has done some good work.

      seems like a justification to me dude. you’re literally justifying his indiscretions, that you even call out, by saying the charity he heads “has done some good work”.

      And I sure as hell don’t white wash Bill Gates. You don’t get to that level of wealth and dominance without cracking skulls and ruining lives every step of the way.

      I don’t know if you’re actually being misleading or confusing by accident but calling attention to it being “nuanced” is a clear indicator that your argument supports that the “ends justify the means”.

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every dictator did “some good work”, are you thinking they are good people?

  IMO your moral compass need maintenance.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think you realise the bad things he did (and still does, like patenting everything he ‘funds’ in research) versus the “some good” things coming out of it, that’s about it I think. That’s why your comments make me feel like you excuse an execrable people "just because ‘some good’ came out of it.

      BTW I had to scroll throug the whole original post, Connect (the lemmy soft) lost your answers, so if you answer to this I might not be able to respond.

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• FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It capitalized Wash because spell checker is the leaf on the wind.

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