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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
It also helps if you avoid hyperbole and characterizing the opposing viewpoint as illiterate ranting.
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Yeah... sorry. I do that. It's a character flaw. ;-)
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
my point of view here though is that neither side is less guilty / more virtuous than the other, and the ultimate result of google's actions are significantly more beneficial to society as a whole than anything else.
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If Google's actions are more beneficial to society, how are they not more virtuous? Because they hoped to profit from it (you said Google's "motivations were surely not noble or altruistic"--I would argue atruism doesn't truly exist and nobel actions may include people looking for a profit)? I don't get the demonizing of capitalist intentions. Why is so bad to better your business (and employees as a result, I might add) as well as society?