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"Live and let live" and "golden rule" are great philosophies to live by.

But you still have responsibility when you assist others in doing things, whether you agree or disagree with those things.

Otherwise you are ignoring the "let live" part of your own philosophy.

For example, someone comes to you asking for your services to help them kill a third person.

If you believe in the "let live" part of your philosophy, you cannot assist in depriving someone of life in that way.

Same applies to the golden rule. It's easy to say you don't want to be denied assistance from others, so you won't deny it to them. But that's the easy scenario. Consider, when Alice is asked by Bob to help damage you, do you think the golden rule tells Alice to deprive you of life and liberty? I don't think it does.

>>jlokie+(OP)
You are over-complicating it. Evil people might use my software on GitHub to help kill people. I'm okay with that. I'm not going to try to prevent it; it's impossible. Their blood is not on my hands any more than the blood of Nice France victims is on the truck company's hands.

>>umvi+x3
I think it's obvious that the scope here is "things you are aware of (or could choose to be) and are within your control".

>>jlokie+(OP)
> But you still have responsibility when you assist others in doing things, whether you agree or disagree with those things.

Another responsibility that is not given enough weight is the maintenance of a civil non-polarized society.

>>jlokie+ts
If customers would be anonymous, would you mind if ICE used GitHub since nobody at GitHub would be aware of it?

If GitHub were to go through with it, that would make for an interesting middle-man company business model.