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ceejayozlast Tuesday at 5:13 PM1 replyview on HN

To Godwin a little, sometimes the right thing is not the majority thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser


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bigstrat2003last Tuesday at 5:37 PM

The point was not "whatever the majority wants is therefore good". The point is that if you were to apply the "you get fired from your job for this" standard evenly, the majority of the country would've had to get fired from their jobs. That is a pretty unreasonable standard to apply, imo.

Also, come on man. It's in really bad taste to compare stuff to the Holocaust. Nobody was being murdered here, it's not remotely the same.

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