Lately I see a lot of calls do have specific instances defederated for a particular subset of reasons:
- Don’t like their content
- Dont like their political leaning
- Dont like their free speech approach
- General feeling of being offended
- I want a safe space!
- This instance if hurting vulnerable people
I personally find each and every one of these arguments invalid. Everybody has the right to live in an echo chamber, but mandating it for everyone else is something that goes a bit too far.
Has humanity really developed into a situation where words and thoughts are more hurtful than sticks and stones?
Edit: Original context https://slrpnk.net/post/554148
Controversial topic, feel free to discuss!
You haven’t read what I wrote or you haven’t understood it. I did not say: It is gene therapy.
I did not say: I think it’s gene therapy. I haven’t made any statement about my opinion on that matter.
I said: Given the, simplified, explanation of how mRNA vaccines work an argument could be made to call it gene therapy.
I did NOT say that this is my argument. I did NOT say that calling mRNA vaccines gene therapy is right (or wrong, I did NOT make ANY judgment on that matter).
So either you’re intentionally misreading my statements or you’re not able to understand that even if I don’t agree with an opinion I might be able to follow it’s inherent logic which is what I did.
In any case I don’t see value in further engaging on that topic with you.