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People's definition of what is right is different. Why not give your vision a bit more force behind it.

That's not immoral, it's just the way to get ahead of the detractors.

Specifically why I left morality out of it. If one brings morals into it, you end up using phrases like “it’s not personal, it’s business” to justify morals or disregard responsibility from actions.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with adding “force”, or “force majeure” in some cases, behind ideas. Just don’t pretend that it doesn’t cost anything or that doing so is not having an effect by slinging around meaningless apologies like “sorry, it’s not personal, it’s business.”

If you're playing chess against someone, it would be absurd to ignore the positions of their pieces when deciding your next moves, especially given that the positions of the pieces are open knowledge. Stop trying to make strategic decision making into an illegal or unethical thing. That's absurd.

> Stop trying to make strategic decision making into an illegal or unethical thing. That's absurd.

What? Could you please explain this and point out when it happened?

The dog whistle of "get out of responsibility".

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