Comment by mtrimpe
11 years ago
From the Wikipedia link in your profile I see you invented Google's "Don't Be Evil' motto.
At least now I finally understand how they manage to still hold on to that.
As long as you redefine evil to exclude things you don't feel other people should be hurt by you're all clear!
Evil is teaching people to view themselves as weak victims at every available opportunity.
Wait; did you just define calling out a needlessly offensive name as evil?
You do realise that would sort of be making the exact point I was trying to make, right? Or am I missing some seriously self-deprecating joke here?
Words are meaningless without definition.
You say that the word "bro" is needlessly offensive. Let me ask you, where is your balance point? What is the right level of offensive? The cost of censorship is real, and teaching people to be helpless victims does more harm than any word ever could.
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