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No, it's objectively dumpster trash. Dig deeper in the linked post and you'll see way worse comments.

There are subjective things and there are objective things. What you're doing at this moment (trying to justify both sides) is intellectually dishonest.

> To them you are the assholes for calling it trash or wanting to get rid of it.

A child might call their parents stupid for not letting them eat candy all day. Objectively the parents are not stupid, the child has a mistaken perspective.

From the perspective of a hypergiant star, the sun is not that big. This does not change the objective truth that the sun is a large object.

I hope you realize you are justifying horrible, vile speech by trying to "see both sides".

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You obviously didn't read what I said.

> There are subjective things and there are objective things. What you're doing at this moment (trying to justify both sides) is intellectually dishonest.

Well you didn't really justify anything or understand what I said and then accused me of acting in bad faith. Lovely.

> A child might call their parents stupid for not letting them eat candy all day. Objectively the parents are not stupid, the child has a mistaken perspective.

Also the nanny state that you are promoting will have the opposite effect of what you want. Most of the places that have draconian rules are normally the places where most of the vice occurs ... it just happens out of sight of the authorities.

> I hope you realize you are justifying horrible, vile speech by trying to "see both sides".

I believe in freedom of speech. If people cannot say vile things they cannot be corrected by the rest of society, by silencing them you will just force it underground where it will fester. Well done you are making the problem worse.

I saw the post and i think its interesting. Glad to see different kind of discussion compared to reddit or hn.

In the prespective of the child, the parent might be stupid. Even in the perspective of other parent, some parent might not consider it stupid.

This just show "large" is relative.

I'm not justifying horrible, vile speech because I disagree that the speech is horrible or vile.

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