On 4/21/17, Allan Mwenda <[email protected]> wrote: > By your analogy, you need to teach the barbarians to farm, then noone dies > period. If you lived in that village and the barbarians came and it was your > wife's turn to be slaughtered for the greater good... >
Presumably that's what the barbarian would be studying when they would normally be raiding the second person :p The hope is that part of the reason thing's are still the way they need not to be, is collective ignorance and lack an objectively appealing enough culture. [at least, as objective as that type of thing can be considered] > On 22 April 2017 03:17:19 GMT+03:00, John Luke Gibson <[email protected]> > wrote: >>Let's do bear in mind that they do have real reasons for keeping >>proprietary blobs in their systems. While these reasons do not measure >>to the ethical concerns, think about this in terms of a much more >>grossly obvious circumstance: if a barbarian kills two people in >>bandit raids everyday, and you convince that barbarian to kill one >>less person each day, then yes they are still killing, but you're not >>in the end compromising your principles by making the observation that >>the situation is better and are in no way contradicting those morals >>by praising the barbarian for being less murderous. Obviously this is >>a gross comparison but I think it demonstrates a universal principle >>very well. >> >>On 4/21/17, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Compromise is a trap and why theres no libre wifi and gpus >>> >>> Lyberta talked about (and I responded about) "respect", >>> not "compromise" or even "collaborate". >>> >>> >>> Stefan >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] >>> http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook >>> Send large attachments to [email protected] >> >>_______________________________________________ >>arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] >>http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook >>Send large attachments to [email protected] > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
