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Rev. Andy 🐺 🌿 🪱

@stux You and your family live on a street with lots of neighbours.

One of your neighbours makes racist jokes and hangs Nazi flags in their garden. You choose not to speak to that neighbour, and ignore them.

A second neighbour doesn't make racist jokes or hang Nazi flags in their garden, but is happy to listen to the first neighbour, share their jokes with others, and so on.

Do you continue to be friends with the second neighbour? Or choose not to, to protect your family? Seems simple to me.

28 Jun 2023 at 20:06 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mentalhealth.social
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Stéphanie Pageau

@andy @stux I do think it depends on the kind of neighbour. If it's a Nazi, well then yeah. But if first neighbour likes to have wild flowers on its front yard, but second neighbour hates it and don't want to talk to first neighbour.. you can still be friends with both.

28 Jun 2023 at 20:13 | Open on mstdn.ca
Grutjes

@Pheneatis

So what do you expect Meta to bring to the table: flowers?

@andy @stux

28 Jun 2023 at 20:24 | Open on mstdn.social
Stéphanie Pageau

@Grutjes @andy @stux Stux wasn't even talking about Meta. I've seen very childish examples of what he's referring to here.

28 Jun 2023 at 20:26 | Open on mstdn.ca
Sander 🔑

@andy @stux if you can’t argue the case don’t try to hide it by resolving to bad metaphors please. It’s not a good look.

28 Jun 2023 at 20:20 | Open on mastodon.coffee
deegeese

@andy @stux In your analogy, this is forbidding your spouse and children from talking to the neighbors who are friendly with the everyone.

28 Jun 2023 at 20:24 | Open on noc.social
Alexey Skobkin

@andy @stux
Yes, I will continue.

I feel some Minority Report vibes from your argument.

These people are not obliged to do anything. The sole fact that they're not building a wall with another house doesn't mean that they're supporting such ideology. They can have ideology of their own and respect others freedom if others don't infringe on someone else's freedom. They can even argue and actively disagree with such "bad neighbor".

28 Jun 2023 at 20:56 | Open on lor.sh
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