Hi. On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 07:15:57 +1300 Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 05:17:24PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:44:11 +0100 > > Unknown Crewman <unknown.crew...@rocketship.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:17:14 +0300 Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > No, I want to be informed about the Avaaz activism. Avaaz is > > > > > harmless activism. For my taste it's just too often not smart. > > > > > > > > You're saying this as if there was such a thing as a 'smart activism'. > > > > > > I consider e.g. the following, including the downloads using the MIT > > > access as smart: > > > https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt > > > > And that lead to that story that caused Aaron Swartz to commit suicide, > > isn't it? That's hardly a fine example of 'smart activism' thing, > > considering the outcome IMO. > > You can't control what actions another person decides to take. I'm not sure I understand your statement. I as a current self - of course I don't control any actions of anyone. But things such as neuro-linguistic programming or plain old blackmailing clearly show that such control is possible, at least to some degree. > > It's a good example of 'usual activism', though. Activist is risking > > everything, possibly including reputation and (in this case) - own life. > > That would be an extreme case, in my view. Why? Greenpeace activists fit this scenario perfectly. Protests against nuclear plants do the same. To recall most recent such scenario - Euromaidan. I'm not saying it's a good thing (nor I'm saying that it's a normal thing), but I cannot consider it extreme too. It happens way too often. Reco _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list D-community-offtopic@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic