On Hacker News, user jimmyjim comments on the recent GoDaddy-related outrage,
In the words of Elie Wiesel, "Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor. Never the victim. Never the tormented." ... Too often people think inaction implies neutrality. It does not. It's an enabling behavior. Passivity is a free permission slip for the status quo to persist onward.
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I do not agree. On an older blogpost, I discussed, why: http://uxul.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/mitlaufer/
For those not speaking German: Mainly because I think that without people who do not care about politics, the advance of technology (which is an important part of the advance of society) would be much slower.
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I do not actually think I disagree with your article. One obviously has to strike a balance between harmony and confrontation. Compromises are unavoidable. This is true not just in politics, but in other parts of life as well (such as at work or in a relationship). You have to pick your battles, as they say.
The point is that shunning all confrontation is just as bad as denying any kind of compromise (which, by the way, applies just as well to all the little private disagreements that one might have with spouses, bosses, friends, etc.).
I do not blame people for not resisting forcefully against all unjustice in the world at every opportunity. I do, however, blame them for hypocrisy.
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