Friday, May 10, 2019

Beautiful

https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-i-do-not-hate-donald-trump

Edited to add:

Saw some responses to this on Twitter, and I think there's a bit of confusion about what it means to love.

Like, they think it means accepting the actions someone makes even if it's hurtful.

Isaac Asimov had a story about a robot, I forget where I read it or what it was called, but his robots are all programmed with the three laws of robotics, meant to prevent them from harming people.

A woman asked the robot various questions, and realizing that the truth would hurt her, the robot lied.

At the end of the story, the robot realized the lies hurt her too, and couldn't handle the resulting bug in its code.

Telling the truth would cause injury, but so did lying.

I may misremember some of this, but I think the point is fairly obvious.

Anyways, sometimes the loving thing to do is to tell someone when they have hurt you, or crossed your boundaries, or are doing something you disagree with.

It's not about controlling them (though it may seem like it to the person you have that sort of difficult conversation with). It's about being true to yourself and expressing yourself...

Saying "I disagree, and can not be party to this" is not controlling. Saying "I disagree, and I will never speak to you again if you do" is.

Umm. The distinction gets blurry easily, and people get them all confused and sometimes say the latter in an attempt to emphasize how strongly they feel instead of consciously trying to control the other party, so this isn't meant to be something you use to hate on people. It's more about illustrating that loving someone can mean telling them when they're wrong (and even though they may take it the wrong way you've still got to do it. Otherwise you're hurting them just as much as the lying robot.)

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