| > I am so sick of reading this shallow dismissal. > It’s a classic bad faith argument where the offender tries to undermine the victims rights by claiming: “in fact I’m really just defending this other persons rights!” > It’s an intentionally obtuse strawman to say “people who sound similar to”. > I’ll frame it in a way people on this site can understand. Perhaps you wouldn't be so sick of it if you attempted to actually understand the argument. The irony in dismissing this as a "shallow dismissal" is you're actually making a shallow dismissal yourself. Your condescending attitude and feeling that you're so much smarter than everybody else is also (I suspect) a hindrance to actually trying to understand what someone with a different viewpoint than yours might possibly be thinking. This particular case is pretty clear cut: Sam A liked Johansson's voice and either found an actress to mimic it, or he stole it. But when you are creating policy and law, you have to get at the underlying principles, and be able to apply that equally to multiple situations, many of which will be far less clear cut than this one. I.e. laws don't (or shouldn't) say "Sam A can't imitate Scarlet Johannson's likeness," they have to provide some sort of standard and/or benchmark that defines the underlying principle. Is it possible that you are talking about a specific case, while the people you accuse of shallow dismissals are actually going a lot deeper than you and talking about the greater (and much harder to nail down) principles? This particular case is boring. It's mostly just gossip mixed with cult of personality. Far, far more interesting to me is the philosophy and principles behind it. Welcome to HN by the way! (and I mean that seriously. We've obviously disagreed here, but that's what makes this site great IMHO. I do hope that you come to have a little more humility and respect for others though, otherwise you're likely to miss the real interesting deep discussions I love this site for). |
Bootlicking for an unethical megacorp is the road to "deeper and greater principles"? Peak HN.