On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 02:14:16PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > Nico Williams wrote on 04/04/2021 21:16: > > Let's start with the offensiveness of Swift's "A Modest Proposal". I > > read it yesterday. It is extremely offensive. > > It really isn't: it's clearly satire that was aimed at an inexcusable > injustice. [...] Why did you not quote the rest of my post, where I said exactly that? > [...]. The material difference between it and the recent Apr 1 IDs was > that that the Apr 1 IDs took aim at a set of measures intended to deal with > an injustice. This trivializes the debate way too much and ascribes way too much power to the BCP the TERM would aim to publish. If we wish to right injustices, perhaps we should look at what we can do to discourage certain nation states from using prison slave labor, having political prisoners, or harvesting organs from prisoners. I suspect an actual proposal to do anything about that (I've some ideas if you like) would go down like a piece of tungsten thrown in the ocean over the Marianas trench. Nico --
