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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If people profiting from the series can drop it over JK, so can you

I have the books that I have read about 20 years ago. That's pretty much my "involvement" with HP. I don't care about it, I was just pointing out how that kind of rationale is destructive (or better, reinforcing what others did). You say:

It’s really easy to just give something up when it has no impact on your health

Sure. The problem though is that if the premise "someone with shitty ideas created or profits from me buying/interacting with this thing" is supposed to hold, then pretty much everyone should give up essentially anything. I can guarantee that 99% of the stuff you buy partially ends up enriching some shitty billionaire, buying military equipment that kills people or is straight up made by people I would disagree with. Therefore, my argument is that it's an unsustainable way to see the world. It is only sustainable when applied selectively based on purely arbitrary criteria. And if one can apply it as they want, then it's perfectly OK for some people to apply it to HP.

So my argument has nothing to do with HP (I can't care less to be honest).

you will argue with people for criticizing

Obviously, I will start from the fact that I can do what I please. Also I am not arguing with the criticism itself, but with a specific line of thought that I find inconsistent and ultimately hypocritical.

You’ve been told throughout the thread that it makes people uncomfortable when someone talks about harry

At this point I am not even sure you understood who you are responding to, since what you are answering to was my first comment in the whole post. That said, people also feel uncomfortable when 2 males kiss, should I honor that? No, right? So we agree that ultimately what matters is my belief in what I think is right and what is wrong. I don't think anybody is going to chase people with HP books like Jehovah's witnesses, but on the other hand it's also an incredibly weird expectation that people should just purge from their lives something they might care about or like if they don't believe it's the right thing to do, considering there is no direct harm in any way in "talking" about HP.

You may not be a bigot but you railroad arguments like one, your ethics are confused, your “seperate the artist” line of thinking works a lot better when the artist is dead and not constantly feeding a hate machine with money.

Yep, you are definitely answering the wrong person.

Also, for the love of everything, stop using the word “Logic”. You clearly haven’t studied Aristotelean or Socratic logic, and you sound like a 4chan regular. Great way to defend your beloved series.

Since I did mention "logic", I will still answer this bit. I did study logic as it's part of the regular curriculum both in Math and Philosophy, both subjects that are studied in high school. Let alone in University, considering the strong relationship with computer science. If you were so kind as to point out why you think the use of logic was wrong, when the whole comment was insisting on what is essentially a misapplied syllogism, maybe your argument can be worthy of note. At the moment, much like your comment, it seems just a weird internet attempt at insulting someone else rather than their arguments. All this conscious that you did answer to me thinking to be answering to someone else...

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You posted this and then blocked me lmao. You've misrepresented yourself, argued in bad faith, and STILL done all this in support of a bigot and their work. Stay stupid, I guess!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I didn't block you... dude, read usernames?