Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch”

I take it from your language that you're familiar with Jonathan Haidt and his five moral foundations analysis. I enjoy listening to Haidt, and think he makes a lot of valid points, especially in terms of equality of outcome vs. opportunity and all the delicate snowflakes growing to be wusses, but I think some of the five foundations have logical problems. For example, care/harm. He says that liberals strongly value it but conservatives only roughly equally with loyalty, purity, etc, and libertarians barely at all.

I contend that libertarians have not the least, but the MOST concern for the well being of others. I hold that freedom is more valuable than free stuff. Liberals are all over the free stuff, but at the cost of freedom. Libertarians want a society where everyone enjoys freedom; therefore Libertarians care more about care/harm, PROPERLY DEFINED, than either liberals or conservatives. There are a couple other areas where I think his old liberal self causes him to botch the foundational definitions, but you get the point.

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