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I've been doing this on this thread because really why not.
Because it makes you an asshole https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free_speech.png
So you're being politely asked not to, and the reason why we're asking you not to is being spelled out so that it's clear that sure you can have the debate... but sometimes the place where you have the debate matters. Little different from how we don't launch into politics and philosophy of town planning and the impact on cyclists in the RIP thread. Or why we don't launch into the Sheldon Brown argument against charity rides when that is someone's first significant cycle ride. I don't have to do the polite thing... but please do take the philosophising elsewhere.
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Last question then. Humour me, would you interfere if I offered to make a donation to a Russian charity in a thread which I opened in order to sell my Decathlon? And you were making that decision prior to reading the above and you happened on the Decathlon thread and I offered no explanation in it of why I thought donating to said cause was good?
ra1
Thanks for that. 1. There's a straightforward Dickensian critique of charitable giving focused on the suppressed motivations of givers. 2. There are actual and obvious questions here about whether donating/giving in this case prolongs a miserable situation, and I don't mean that as an example of some general effect of giving, I mean in this exact case. I've been doing this on this thread because really why not.