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coppice:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 16, 2020, 04:57:56 am ---The be fair, I know SJW's who support all this stuff that genuinely want to "be a good person" (I've had them use that exact phrase as reasoning to me).

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If they were genuine they would scratch beneath the surface of what they are proposing, and take a good look as the horrors that lie beneath. Mostly they want to feel good, rather than be good.
PlainName:

--- Quote ---Mostly they want to feel good, rather than be good.
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Isn't that why anyone does good? Even if you take some kind of hit to achieve good - maybe it costs you or your marriage fails or whatever - you still only do it because you feel good, probably because of all the problems it causes you.
coppice:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 16, 2020, 11:27:42 am ---
--- Quote ---Mostly they want to feel good, rather than be good.
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Isn't that why anyone does good? Even if you take some kind of hit to achieve good - maybe it costs you or your marriage fails or whatever - you still only do it because you feel good, probably because of all the problems it causes you.

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Yes and no. There is feeling good by self delusion, and there is feeling good after a real search for what is good.

An example: Some years ago there was a scandal in Australia, where a group collecting outside churches to help the third world were actually using the money to finance horrifying things in the third world. When parishioners were confronted with this reality some were shocked, and deeply regretful for what they had done. Others took the attitude that just tossing money to the collectors is what made them a good person, and they would actually continue giving money to the same people. These reactions were so bizarre, someone made an entire documentary about this behaviour. The deeper they probed into these people's attitudes the more bizarre they looked.
MK14:
(JK = Joke Alert  :-DD )

This situation, was predicted many decades ago, in some old, very dusty RTL/DTL/ECL/TTL databooks I have.
Under the Master/Slave JK flip-flop section. It mentions to be very careful with their design, because there could be future problems with a logic RACE condition/hazard!
tl;dr
SJW's are causing a Metastability, with our naming schemes.
langwadt:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 16, 2020, 04:57:56 am ---
--- Quote from: 0culus on July 16, 2020, 02:17:34 am ---No one who is pushing all these ridiculous terminology changes wants to actually solve real issues like that. It's all about virtue signaling and pretending to be good people.
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The be fair, I know SJW's who support all this stuff that genuinely want to "be a good person" (I've had them use that exact phrase as reasoning to me).
The problem is that people and causes will take advantage of this, and these people fail to realise it's OK not to get behind every cause and say "Meh, is this a big deal? why bother?". To the point that failing jump on board with every one of these bandwagons is tantamount to NOT being a "good person". They are then tricked into an ever downward spiral of support for everything "social justice".

Plus the sweet juicy social currency in virtue signalling of course.

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