Attacks and doxing make me personally MORE likely to support stronger safety features in chromium, as such acts increase my suspicion that there is significant intimidation from criminals who are afraid this feature will disrupt their illegal and/or unethical businesses, and I don’t give in to criminals or bullies

Kick a puppy
Get attacked for kicking a puppy
“These attacks make me MORE likely to keep kicking puppies, as I don’t give in to intimidation from criminals and bullies that want healthy puppies for their nefarious ends.”

  • Scary le Poo
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    201 year ago

    That is an analogy.

    The analogy being, do something objectively bad, get called out for it, double down because you don’t like getting called out for it.

    No one is equivocating anti-wei people to puppies.

    • @usernotfound@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      There’s some massive misunderstanding about my comment.

      I called it a false equivalency because it’s comparing both the measures (“stronger safety”) and the thing is supposed to prevent (doxing and bullying) to puppy kicking.

      That’s just emotional manipulation done badly. We all call it out when politicians use pedophiles to warrant Internet surveillance, and now apply it ourselves? I don’t know about you, but when I see bad reasoning, I’ll call it out. Even if it’s done by “my side”.

      • Scary le Poo
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        41 year ago

        No, it was not a comparison, it was an ANALOGY.

        “A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.”

        The important word here is resemblance. This is an analogy showing a resemblance, not a comparison.