• BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Aside from balking at the audacity of using a platform for piracy as her own personal blog, the community was quick to knock her down a peg.

    So I guess you read them all? The great thinkers? To verify how you are above and beyond their thinking? Do you understand how utterly arrogant this post makes you? I will tell you why. To put yourself above thinkers like Arthur Schopenhauer, Adam Smith, John Locke, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Francisco de Vitoria, Friedrich Nietzsche and so many others. Human beings who have helped shape the foundation of the world we live in today. I am talking about the most basic of basic stuff we now take for granted like property, human rights, democratic governance and rule of law. Without these ideas and those who dedicated their lives to refine them, our world could not be like it is today.

    This was a strong argument, but as someone else jokingly pointed out:

    removed shut up, they pirated rdr2

    Which, to be fair, Hobbes and Kant never did.

    I’m fucking dead 😂