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by thinkdevcode 3938 days ago
I don't usually reply to HN posts but in this instance I'm deeply troubled by most of the posts you've made in this thread, but the most unsettling thing you've said thus far is:

> Because they are creating a world that is just very slightly more considerate than the one before.

Who gives you, or anyone else, the right to "create a world" in which I am a member of and can dictate what I can and cannot say? Why do you get to decide what is "considerate"?

I see this in our next generation and this trend is most troubling indeed.

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> Who gives you, or anyone else, the right to "create a world" in which I am a member of and can dictate what I can and cannot say?

"Dictating"? You're not being required not to say words. People are suggesting it might be inconsiderate. Although I suppose that eventually it might become culturally unacceptable.

As for 'the right to "create a world"', nobody has a "right" to change culture, it's simply a thing which happens. Some people attempt to influence how it changes.

Though another answer might be that everyone has the right: everyone has the human right to free speech, and speech affects culture.

> I see this in our next generation and this trend is most troubling indeed

Culture shifts are nothing new. People believing they can change culture, and doing it, is nothing new.