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t0bia_s | on: TikTok goes dark in the US
"an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" is solution to you?

Respect doesn't mean that you have to agree. If you believe that something is wrong, use arguments, educate, inform... It's hard to implement pathological behaviour in well informed and educated society. Fragile society, however, is easier to be manipulated with and lead to hate, violence and wars.

herval | parent | next
“Tit for that” is a solution for the USA on a great deal of topics, from reciprocal taxes to reciprocal visa requirements for travel. Why not reciprocate social media site access too? It’s just another product after all?
r33b33 | parent | next
> "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" is solution to you?

What's wrong with this solution?

consteval | root | parent | next
It doesn't actually solve anything, rather it makes the baseline lower by hurting everyone. I.e., it's an anti-solution - something that actively makes things worse, and can only make things worse, but masquerades as a solution.

An example of an anti-solution is lowering crime by making something that was illegal no longer illegal (see: public transit vs automobiles). Or, reducing the incidence of something by making it illegal while simultaneously increasing it's necessity (see: abortion). Or, solving wage inequality by protesting minimum wage increases.

r33b33 | root | parent
Better to lower baseline for everyone than to be the naive sucker that gets taken advantage of
consteval | root | parent | next
Right, but objectively it's not, because both parties experience either same or worse outcomes. So it's not better, by definition of "better".
t0bia_s | root | parent
Do you consider yourself as naive?
Barracoon | root | parent | next
It makes the whole world blind
cocacola1 | root | parent
No, there'd be one person left with an eye. They could just dodge the last blind person.
mattxxx | root | parent | next
agreeing with the point the question makes here; the game theory of global politics does not work with the same morals that we prescribe individual people
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swat535 | parent
I agree, a "well informed" society would be wonderful but we have a long way to get there and even then, highly educated people are not immune to misinformation and propaganda. Not everything is black and white, there are always shades of grey and these are difficult to navigate.

I think imposing certain limits on various freedoms, including speech is required for a functioning democracy. I also believe that there are deeper issues if the populace of a nation no longer respect the decisions made by its highest court of law.