This.
Speaking as someone that once saw a person destroyed by a vicious rumour (not related to kiddie-fiddling), I get an instinctive reaction to casual flippant remarks related to a person’s honour or vices. People really should stay schtumm unless they have something concrete to lean on. If they don’t do that, they’ve either been taught wrong, or their sense of empathy is at rock bottom,
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You’re quite right to point this out. Yet at the same time: To a very great extent, and for better or worse, Musk has become the face of American futurism. If the public at large gets the idea that Elon Musk is insane, that notion could broadly damage our prospects for the adoption of solar power and transport electrification.
(There are plenty of other “tech” CEOs of course, but I don’t think they count as futurists. They mostly deal in social software that serves trivial desires rather than needs, and they’re not really in the business of making new things possible, not anymore. We already have social media everywhere, and Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the rest are literally records of the past, both the recent past and the less recent past. There will be evolution in social media, of course, but the revolution there is over.)
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Yes, spreading rumors is wrong, but if we suspect that a child, or an adult is being harmed, it is our responsibility investigate and or discreteely inform the appropriate institutions.
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And I believe everybody concurs with that. But “billionaire tells us there might be something dodgy about a diver in Thailand” does not fall under reasonable suspicion. Neither is “he is so goddamn clever that he probably knows something us lesser mortals don’t” a valid argument.
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I don’t disagee with all of that. I was referring to this:
Alot people have said that if Musk really believed that the diver was a danger to children, the appropriate action would be contacting authorities, not spreading rumors on twitter.
I agree.
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Well, except Catholic priests, coaches, hollywood power players (and their enablers), university PR firms, politicians, etc, etc… but yeah, basically everybody…
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I don’t really understand how you conclude that I like his project if I assume driving off of cliff has the same chance of reaching mars as his spaceship?
Or how you conclude that I want ‘everything forgiven’ because of that? Oh well, maybe I am misunderstanding you, and I just don’t get the joke.
Just to be sure: my comment was meant as a (lame) joke about the infeasebility of colonizing mars.
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