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RE: Steemit Ethics- Unintended consequences and efforts towards deescalation
The answer?
'Every Right entails a Responsibility - to eschew the latter is to forsake the former.'
In other words - persons who persistently disregard the responsibilities entailed in exercising free speech can expect to have the related rights curtailed. Such is logical justice.
Well said.
disagree. feels like censorship...
I strive toward consistency in as many things as feasibly possible - and when it comes to the workings of society (or human behavior) I consider such to be of greatest importance.
In the same way that one would expect one's gun-carry license rights to be revoked for failing to live up to the responsibilities...
In the same way that one would expect one's driving license rights to be revoked for grossly failing to live up to the responsibilities...
I would expect that the same apply to the right to freedom of speech. Everybody starts off with a right so fundamental... but abuse it enough and fail to live up to the entailed responsibilities... and it should not surprise one to find those rights curtailed.
As indicated above, some rights are easier revoked than others by virtue of how inalienable they are to humanity. Also, a curtailment is not the same as removal.
In the context of steemit this could take several forms, including:
The third is the most limiting category. If approval by a member of sufficient privilege isn't a sufficient filter then I'd prefer seeing this tightened to approval by a maximum of 3 members than see curtailment of a user's ability to post or comment.