Yesterday we learned that @fsf's acting president, Alexandre Oliva, thinks Stallman's life is now "destroyed" because he is experiencing consequences for 30 years of bad behavior.
Here's a thread from a bona fide academic who studies this, on whether people's lives are "ruined":https://twitter.com/NBedera/status/1174340842267512833 …
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Spoiler alert: no. And in fact, people often use their "my life was ruined" story to gain EVEN MORE advantages than they had before said life was "ruined."
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Sarah Mei Retweeted Frisco Uplink, untitled goose
I've been thinking about this tweet from
@_danilo a lot. "Moral fashions," as people like Paul Graham like to call them, are a fiction.https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/1174151932681818112 …Sarah Mei added,
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The idea of "moral fashion" is that we can't hold people responsible for wrong stuff they did in the past, when said wrong stuff was "more acceptable." This fiction is promulgated by people who KNOW they've done wrong things in the past.
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100% this. I love this whole thread. Thank you for sharing and for all the references.
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