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Mayhaps, they are so young that they don't know what the world looked like before 2001 normalized state surveillance.
Love is universal. Unfortunately, so is hate. The hippie in me prescribes a large dose of the former.
I suspect hate is not what motivates people like this. It's a misplaced concept of love.
What's that C S Lewis quote:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Maybe this means that people like the author of this piece don't understand what love is, but that's a tall order anyway: I don't understand what love is -- just get overwhelmed by it sometimes.
Better, I think, to say that they don't have an idea that love must always be a little dangerous and come at the risk of something. People like this seem to value safety over love, thinking that safety is somehow a laudable goal.
I haven't suffered very much in life, so it's easy for me to say that safety is no worthy goal at all, but it is what I believe, nonetheless.
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I haven't suffered very much in life, so it's easy for me to say that safety is no worthy goal at all, but it is what I believe, nonetheless.
It's the opposite. It's those that have not experienced any real danger in their life that focus so much on the micro-harms they experience through speech aggressions.
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Not sure if it can be generalized like that, even though I would personally align with what you say. I know people that have been through a lot that feel that communications should be free of any form of (micro) aggression - I think that it's part idealism too.
A safe environment doesn't have to be a protected environment, and I respect someone that doesn't want to do business with me because my language is too aggressive for them. Then the choice is mine to try and retain their business by fulfilling their requirements or not, and theirs to retain their requirement or not. If there is nothing to gain then there will just no business being done.
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