alt Hacker News> Punching people who think you and your friends should be killed just for existing is a form of self-defense.
This is such an incredibly radicalized and detached from reality statement. It's genuinely scary that there are people who think this way.
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You vote for my friends to be directly physically harmed, and you think it’s scary that some people respond to your violence with their own?
You’re not “better” because you vote for political violence, my man, though I get that brings up conflicting feelings for you.
It’s actually weird how often people try to pretend that their shitty actions (vis-a-vis making sure Grok can create CSAM, or that Facebook can more effectively give teenage girls depression) are morally neutral because they’re second order effects. You’re still a pretty shitty human being if you directly enable it, even if you’re not the sole cause. Some of y’all need to stop sniffing your own farts (or Elon’s/Thiel’s/etc.) and learn that.
Yeah, it is terrifying there are people who think other people deserve to be killed just for existing and yet, behold, the world is what it is.
The real question is where do you draw the line with these ideologies? I don't think anyone deserves violence just for thinking the wrong things, but we're currently seeing the result of when those thoughts inevitably turn into actions.
It doesn't seem like America ended up on the right side of the paradox of tolerance, so I'm curious how you think we could have avoided our current fascist leadership?
I find it genuinely scary that you have a serious problem with people punching eugenicists and hardcore authoritarians.