[Arm-netbook] System 76 - Entering Phase 3

[Allan Mwenda]

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...

On 22 April 2017 03:17:19 GMT+03:00, John Luke Gibson <eaterjolly at gmail.com> 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 <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> 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
>>
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