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TBH, maybe this is what's broken in current society. We've forgotten how to be human with each other. People make mistakes, have emotions, say stupid things - that's part of being alive.

This era is teaching us to behave like robots: always correct, always perfect, never wrong. But that's not how humans work. We need space to be messy, to fuck up, to learn. Cancel culture is just another form of control - instead of cops and bosses, now it's constant surveillance by everyone of everyone.

Maybe real freedom means accepting that people are flawed and forgiving them for being human.

Garbage nsec 4d ago 💬 1

I agree in general. Orwell I would say seemed a pretty decent guy as far as it goes, and I've no problem with forgiving people for saying stupid things, I agree with you we need much more of that.

But there is a line. Has to be. Timothy C. May was just completely bonkers unhinged, and Chomsky, being fully aware of the underage girls, I mean come on.

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tree 木 4d ago

For me that line is probably different... it's being "evil" in a malicious or sadistic sense - actually causing harm to people, enjoying their suffering, deliberately destroying lives. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Putin - but not just mass murderers, also the everyday sadists and abusers who get off on hurting others.

Timothy C May was obviously intentionally provocative and later paranoid, but I don't believe he was evil in that sense. And that Chomsky became friends at his 84 years (!) with some malicious person - that doesn't prove anything about his life's work or ideas.

I really don't think this digging into people's pasts makes sense.