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p-e-wtoday at 1:55 PM3 repliesview on HN

This would be more convincing if there was any agreement on what the right thing supposedly is.

The major lesson I myself learned as I got older is that “you should do the right thing” is a rephrasing of “you should do what I want you to do”.


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andsoitistoday at 2:20 PM

> This would be more convincing if there was any agreement on what the right thing supposedly is.

The internet has amplified voices who say things to signal rather than do things to change.

That's orthogonal to knowing what "the right thing" is.

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nmztoday at 3:13 PM

Knowing and enacting are two distinct things, "you should do what I want you to do" means you're already doing the wrong thing, and yes, there is an agreement on what the right thing is, its what is ethical, that is, what non profits and archivists are forced to do.

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bix6today at 2:40 PM

That’s just not true. There is a clearly a right thing to do in many circumstances.