| >But they're absolutely not. Fine. I was going for "things society generally accepts to be evil". >there is no objective base on which to call someone unethical. If you want to get this technical but I'm obviously using the words loosely here: I'm using "objective" as a short cut to mean "things that are outright proven or agreed on by practially everyone". So nearly everyone would be ok labelling a criminal as such but I don't think most people believe extending life to be evil. In fact, I'd consider such a position quite niche in general since everyone is for it at least to a limited extent (i.e. medicine). >So put away the crazy comparisons and make a case for why people shouldn't be able to participate in a boycotting campaign. I think social media has made the random person too powerful. Any random person can decide that someone else is "evil" based on literally anything they want and if they have some means of organizing a flash mob they can destroy that person's life. The victim doesn't even have the ability to sue who ever did it. So it's a major imbalance of power. Normally this kind of power to destory people's lives is limited to the justice system. >So put away the crazy comparisons and make a case for why people shouldn't be able to participate in a boycotting campaign. Well, labelling someone is defamation of character and it's not a protected right. You can be successfully sued for doing it (though not arrested afaik). >censorship is not a new thing and people exercising their freedom of speech to decry unethical people and actions is not censorship Social media has changed this. Decrying someone everyone knows to be unethical is not the issue here. Getting a flash mob to attack someone doing something that some consider unethical while others consider it some of the most important work humans will ever work on is an entirely different thing. You never had the right to "speak freely" in the way you're trying to twist it. Defemation of character will potentially land you in civil trouble and no nonsense about "first amendment rights" will save you. |