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1. mthoms+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-05-29 17:35:00
Given limited resources, you don't think it's undeniably "ethically correct" to direct those resources where they are more effective?
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2. 12elep+D1[view] [source] 2020-05-29 17:42:55
>>mthoms+(OP)
It doesn't matter what I think. My point is that ethics are subjective, not objective.
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3. mthoms+93[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-05-29 17:48:43
>>12elep+D1
Let me word it another way then.

Given limited resources, don't you think it's undeniably correct to direct those resources where they are more effective?

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4. 12elep+i6[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-05-29 18:01:32
>>mthoms+93
Depends on what's being done with those resources.

Example 1 - Drumming up support for a war with Iran. No it's not correct to direct resources to where they are most effective. (According to me.)

Example 2 - Trying to get homeless people in SF back on their feet. Yes, direct resources where they are most effective. (Again, according to me.)

But in example 1 if we ask the same question to a war hawk in congress, they'll give you the exact opposite answer. In example 2 if you ask Ayn Rand, again you'll get a different answer.

No one is objectively right or wrong in any of these cases.

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5. mthoms+2c[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-05-29 18:28:33
>>12elep+i6
Quite clearly the question implied "all other things being equal" or "all other factors aside", "what would you do?".

It's funny. I went out of my way to de-politicize the question in order to further the discussion and you promptly re-politicized it in order to muddy it. I suspect it's because you know exactly what I'm getting at. You've avoided the core question no less than 3 times already.

I'll try one more time. Please resist the temptation to play word games or make it political:

If Twitter has limited fact-checking capabilities is it not correct — regardless of politics — to direct those resources where they are more effective?

Therefore (again, regardless of politics), Twitter's actions follow perfectly reasonable logic: that Trump's Tweets would face more scrutiny than say, mine.

Thus, your claim that "the rules are being enforced selectively" can easily be accounted for by Occams Razor: It makes perfect sense that more visible accounts face more scrutiny. It would be highly illogical for Twitter to do otherwise.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/occams-razor/

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6. 12elep+Jke[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-03 20:10:04
>>mthoms+2c
I was never talking about fact checking. I'm taking issue to your casting morality as objective.

It is not.

That is all.

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