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So… Ignoring and ostracizing say, toxic boomers, actually speeds up how fast they go away? This is great news. The teeniest bit of karma.

Sometimes removing yourself from the pipeline is all a person can do. It need not even be framed as a “protest.” That’s just weird projection by someone who’s never been in those situations (or someone who’s interested in continuing to collect a paycheck while cope telling themselves they’re doing “good” by staying because the replacement would be even worse or any other eyeroll ego attempt at rationalization).

Your choice of conjectures, quasi-rhetorical questions, say a lot about what you’re after, which is not simply understanding but some kind of vindication.

Anyways, it is somewhat naive to believe in the myth of the incorruptible person AND that they can change broken shit fuck organizations by being in the right place. Modern systems and structures are way better at neutralizing potential rogue agents like that. One example: Shareholder desires of “value” trump other corporate considerations. It’S tHe LaW.

For your questions or pursuit of understanding, prima facie, in my opinion what can be called a proper answer are empirical, anthropological, or cultural facts, not so much a reasoning or philosophical matter. Maybe it’s different now but back in my day (which was as early as 11 years ago), this information was realistically only available in colleges. Due to its highly political (or anti-political) nature, it is difficult to find in public-facing or mainstream infotainment outlets, ie anything “pop.”

Nobody here’s against self-reflection or questioning or critical thinking. These comments come from people who explicitly did do self-reflection and left. The ones who don’t are still in the evangelical system, I presume.

Believe it or not though, those things have an empirical or social component. Namely, if seemingly rational actors (by all means grill them) are giving such grave warnings, which is an astonishingly rare event… Heed them.

This is more prudence and modesty than mindless or naive deference, an ironically fine line given the subject matter. Lastly, this isn’t simply a black-and-white matter of “good and bad” however comfortable it is to give in to the impulse to reduce everything to such. Reminder: following said impulse doesn’t make you any more moral than the next person.

Jakarta police authorities confirmed that a cybercrime task force has officially launched an investigation to track down the individuals behind the accounts.

Are they posting pictures online or something? Otherwise it’s just regular crime. A “cybercrime task force” just sounds like coppers embellishing their menial ass jobs that they generally suck at doing.

Sounds like the real issue here is that Indonesian child prostitution is publicly advertised on an international online space, thus resulting in lost face (lul), rather than the fact that it’s (presumably) readily available–and always has been–to those with means (money).

On a relatively brighter pixel, I agree with you on this at least.

Ordinary education starting at a young age about fundamental prosocial values, dignity, and shared (and local) interests. Critical thinking skills and practice asking questions like “how will this actually help? Where is it coming from? Cui bono?”

And just being open-minded and not overly emotional (and thus easily manipulated).

And point out that unfortunately many entities out there are more than happy to use them as pawns and care not a wit about the wellbeing of them or their friends, neighbours, or loved ones.

But, putting that into schools would be decried as the boogeyman of “socialism” or even xenophobia or something. Irony