Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 3 days agoRandomly reminds me of some of the freakier social scifi to come out of Asimov’s typewriter. I remember one Robot story where the audience insert protagonist goes to an outer world colony where the incest taboo is not only missing, but it’s considered a faux pas to avoid sex with your family. One of the characters is in deep consternation because he doesn’t want to have sex with his daughter. Anyway, the protagonist and audience are naturally disgusted, but clearly it stuck in my head.
Academically… I don’t know. Because of my upbringing, I just can’t see it is as anything other than a severe moral crime. But I guess I could imagine a very very different world from our own where it wouldn’t be the weirdest fucking thing imaginable to even talk about it.
But that’s me bending over backwards to get inside the head of someone I think I like, like our buddy Stallman here.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thinking freely and imagining freely in our world is considered harmful.
The guy you’re answering is literally blaming Stallman for opinions in the domain of philosophy expressed in words.
There are so many fucking worse things happening very close to them every day by people far less intelligent than Stallman, yet that’s fine. But if a guy who created the FOSS movement says something gross, then they and everything they stand for should apparently be shunned.
It’s an excuse.
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
They might mean that, but they didn’t say it. I don’t think they did mean it. I think they just don’t want people to forget the “problematic” aspects of someone before we go all worship mode on him.
It’s like how my partner will interject–he’s canadian!–if I mention some actor. Like she just doesn’t want me to forget that context, but other than that, I can carry on.
Maybe they did mean that, though and I’m missing some context from somewhere else in this thread.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I don’t care if it’s a verbal tick, if someone shows to my party with a flamethrower, I will assume they are here to burn witches. It does not matter to me if they really are witches or not, you show up with a flamethrower, I will do to you what is the traditionally reserved fate to those carrying flamethrowers on the battlefield. And I will even not be “asking questions later” about it.
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Hmm, you kind of lost me with these metaphors. No offence, I’m just not sure what is supposed to represent what here.