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Being thoughtless and pushing thoughtless or poorly examined morals onto others is a harmful action.



By what logic am I being thoughtless and in possession poorly examined morals?

Is expressing a different opinion "pushing morals"?

So many accusations here. Apparently I'm subhuman, a bad person, and of low moral character. All because I think the exchange of ad impressions for otherwise free access to content is a tolerable bargain, and that subverting the trade is problematic.


I said nothing of your character. I only commented on the action itself. We are human and we make mistakes, but we're not defined by those mistakes.

Advertising is unethical. I would encourage you to start with considering that position, read some opinions on this topic, and spend time considering the harm that advertising causes not only directly on the human, but also the incentives and ecosystems and structures of capitalism that advertising enables and perpetuates that also harms humans.

It is possible you simply don't hold the same values as me and many other people. Namely that people should not be harmed, capitalism perpetuates a lot of harm, people have rights to protect themselves from harm, and whether the means justify the ends.

I wish you well regardless.




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