Do you think there is any difference in scale and gravity between saying nigger on the Internet and habitually molesting and raping multiple children? Just curious. I personally think there is a meaningful difference between those two things. That's my opinion.
With the amount of TTD, TKD, TND et cetera that the far right shouts, I'm sure they would be out on the streets doing all that they shout, were they not held back by the current system that prevents them. Based? I'm not a proponent of RWDS, I believe in due process and justice. For the most vile offenders, I agree with the death penalty, but there should be a due process, otherwise it turns into all-out slaughter with innocent people caught in the crossfire. I come from an ex-communist country where communists (jews or jew cocksuckers) mass murdered entire Christian families and towns and threw them into caves, then tried to cover it up by backfilling the caves in hope they don't get discovered. After the people revolted and overthrew the commies, they started finding these mass burial sites. But the commies got partly back in power and there's been a fight about the proper burial or even addressing the existence of these mass burial sites in the public for the last 20 years. My point is, imagine if that were the right-wing that did all that, they would get such a huge backlash that the pendulum would swing so far to the left that the right would be doomed for the next 100 years, like happened with the Nazis and post-ww2 germany.
There are unjust murderous elements in both the left and right, and I don't agree with either them. I would be fine if they both went at each other and snuffed each other out though, leaving the non-psycho people to keep living.
I think the samesideism cannot be invoked when you moving on spectrum to righteousness from whatever is the opposite of righteousness.
It's the same way with violence - some is bad, some is good when it's for the right cause.
I never mentioned those things, but sure
No, when I said "liable", I meant that from the moral standpoint.
Both sides believe they're righteous, and believe that the opposite side is not righteous. They differ in their interpretation of what good and bad is. I don't think this is the place to be discussing moral relativism.
I still think companies shouldn't be liable in any way for a person's life, because that would turn them into a sort of court that weighs a person's morals and punishes him. We have the justice system for that. If you disagree with the punishment he got for what he did, that's another thing, the laws and punishments could be changed. But it's not the job of a company to dish out punishment for what a person has already been punished for in the past and has served his sentence.
Ok, let's take is as given that they're equivalent situations. The man "did his time" for repeatedly raping his sister, so he's got a right to be left alone. It is, however, inevitable that people will be angry about the fact that he raped his teenage sister multiple times and he must be aware of that possibility.
In that situation, should he:
1) keep his head down, avoid visibility, stay as quiet as possible, and avoid placing himself in any situation where his past will come back to haunt him,
2) make a spectacle of himself on the internet by needlessly inserting himself into a politically charged debate that has a great deal of public visibility
The fact is, he brought this on himself, regardless of whether or not we should treat him with "respect" or whatever. He tried to use his position within Canonical as a club to beat down someone for their opinions about something. He cannot now complain - nor should anyone else on his behalf complain - about being "cancelled". He is simply facing the same sort of treatment he attempted to mete out to someone else.
Yes, he brought it on himself, and Canonical would be completely correct in firing him, but not for a crime he's already served time for, but for being a dick in the FOSS community that the company is supposed to be positively contributing to. By attacking an independent project that did nothing to attack him, he shows he's acting hatefully and spitefully, wanting to harm the project, which Canonical should disagree with. The fact that Canonical didn't fire him after that shows more about Canonical's politics regarding XLibre than his pedo past.
Castration doesn't work. Castrated pedos still offend. Rather than cut off their balls, we should cut off their head.
The difference is that there is a clear definition of pedophile that isn't just "person I dislike." Yes, companies should not be held liable for what their employees have done in their personal life, but I'm willing to make an exception here not only because it was abhorrent and violent sexual abuse but also because they knew this and still hired him anyway.
Literally just don't fuck kids, and don't rape. How hard could it be?
This is harm reduction at best because Microsoft is pozzed with DIE too.
As I said above, in the western law system, justice is dished out by the courts, not by mobs. You could argue that the laws are unjust, or that the justice system mimics mob rule, or anything like that, but it's at least somewhat accountable. De facto mob rule is unaccountable and is the wild west with numerous mobs fighting and killing each other.
Normally, I would agree with you. I don't mind if someone that does good work is a weird freak in their off time, but he's not just some weird freak.
He isn't doing mushrooms and having forest orgies, he hasn't turned himself into a lizard with extreme plastic surgery, and he isn't getting off to shoving glass jars up his ass. He, at the age of twelve, was molesting his nine year old sister, for 3+ years, and she isn't his only victim!
Even if you were to take all ethics and morality out of the equation and view things from a purely utilitarian viewpoint, his mental sickness is still so extreme that he cannot be trusted to have anyone's best interest in mind.
See my points about the justice system above. You and I are entitled to think what we want, and we're allowed to have our politicians change the laws to punish crimes as we want, but we shouldn't dish out punishments ourselves, such would be unaccountable.
I'm ignorant wrt gentoo, but couldn't we just do an "overlay" or something with all the bespoke use flags and custom binary repos?
I probably butchered the fuck out of that.
Anyway you can use Artix with dinit, xlibre, seatd and turnstile to kick as much of the freedesktop cancer to the curb.
Overlays are just repositories. Functionally there's no difference between a repository and overlay, the latter is just a name for an unofficial repository. Consequently, repositories don't dictate Portage configuration, the user configures Portage himself. AFAIK there's no system to "ship" Portage configuration or package it. With the amount of USE flags and inter-dependent USE flag requirements (package A depends on package B with use flag X, and so on) it would be a challenge to provide such configuration packages that don't conflict with an user's already chosen configurations. Possible but not trivial. You could have a configuration package injected into dispatch-conf and have the user review each configuration change and accept or reject it. It would be much easier to make a customized stage3+ (stage4) with Catalyst with your configs pre-loaded, it would be equivalent to a Gentoo-derivative distro.