Avatar Roku said:
So you're saying that horribly and willfully mismanaging his job (ignoring all his other activities, which are also bad) might lead to him not being able to find another? And this is a bad thing?
At what point is this him reaping what he's sown?
You do have a point that this mob is going a bit far (and that's even ignoring the death threats. Personally, I'd be happy to have this stay an amusing meme), but Christoforo is hardly a blameless victim in all of this.
No, he's not a blameless victim, and him losing his job and the article being on the internet for why he's lost his job are enough.
He'll be hard pressed to find another worthwhile job. His reference will be bitter and his resume will have to answer why he got fired.
To that - fair enough.
But further unearthing these other things he has done, review bombing his products, sending him angry emails... I don't think these are fair actions. I think the mob mentality should be stopped before it gets to the dangerous levels where he becomes in personal danger. These things always escalate and every person clamouring in supporting them is egging the mob on to do more and more horrific things.
He's not a nice guy, but he's still a person, just because he's a jackass doesn't mean we should destroy his life.
The_root_of_all_evil said:
Seriously, man? You're going to bring in "Won't someone think of the children?" when a guy who has been threatening multiple people, ignoring credit laws, outright lying in a business context ended up attacking his greatest public relation point, and it turned it's glare on him?
If the internet was properly policed instead of being an extension of the feral capitalism that's going on in the hands of bankers IRL, then these lynch mobs wouldn't be created.
But SOPA shows how the hyenas want to destroy all the legal people involved in this, while protecting the douchecanoes like Ocean Marketting.
You may not have realised, or seen because your nose is pointing skyward, the sterling work of Eli Schwartz and David Kotkin, who are repairing the damage done to the controller's reputation; or the positive reviews of it coming out from reputable sites that work as guiding forces within the mob.
If you're going to hold you head up high, I'd suggest looking at your feet occasionally, because I think you've trodden in some shit.
Like the "superior" UK Criminal Justice Act; which allows the police to burn Traveller's houses and charge them for doing so. That's the beautiful law you allude to.
It is not "won't someone think of the children".
I was using the example to explain my point. We teach children to not even seek an eye for an eye (to do no more injustice than was done to you), but to turn the other cheek.
Getting caught up in a crazy mob mentality that has a vindictive goal is not acceptable. The guy being a jackass doesn't make destroying his life any less of a vindictive goal.
I've been in the situation of doing vindictive things to bad people, and it just doesn't make it right. If you look in the cold light of day at a man you have broken, it just feels wrong. (My goddamn avatar is still fucking alex from a clockwork orange. Note to self - change that.)
David Kotkin - who runs a seperate business with Paul, and chose him to be his marketing director, has undeniably done good in creating this controller for disabled children, but I fail to see how this has relevance to what I am saying.
I am calling for people to stop baying for blood, to stop clamouring for this guy's life to be ruined. I seek not the heavy handed intervention that SOPA would bring.
I simply wish people to take a step back, think about what they are doing to the man, and question whether it is the right thing to do, or if all they are doing is heaping more and more pain upon someone who has clearly already suffered more than their fair share for his transgressions.
