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@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@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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