My coworker was telling me how well Jerry Maguire stands up today and I forced myself to remember the major beats of that piece of shit:
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Big company bad and evil; small start up good and pure.
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Being principled always pays off in the end.
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Everyone can make it if they try hard, believe in themselves, and believe in each other.
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We can have perfect interpersonal relations if we just learn to balance work and life appropriately, and it’s up to us to accept that challenge.
Fuck this movie. More importantly fuck people who like this movie. Jerry would have turned out just like his old firm buddies (even if the major plot points largely stay the same). Everyone in this movie is actively trying to exploit each other in the beginning. And even though it’s totally inconsequential to how bad these people are in their shitty lives, if you ask me the most unbelievable part is when Jerry and Bridget Jones get back together at the end.
Not buying it.
Tell me about the shitty liberal movies that are renting space in your head.
if it doesn’t harm anyone and nobody even notices it happening, how can it be wrong?
oh wait that applies to creepshots under some circumstances… maybe we need to be deontologists after all
that’s not what i meant, jackass. i meant you could spy on somebody in an undetectable way and that finding where that’s harmful to the victim (or “victim”, i guess) is a lot harder than with noticed surveillance.
i think it’s wrong and it’s definitely against the norms of any society i’d want to live in but I struggle to articulate why from first principles.
I think you could make the argument that it is wrong to do something if there is both
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A chance that someone finds out what you’ve done
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Harm done to that person if they do find out
The psychological harm done by an invasion of privacy is enough to consider it wrong even if that psychological harm isn’t guaranteed. imo anyway
yeah recklessly risking harm to someone is bad, that’s a good angle. Still leaves some shithead who is certain they can get away with it but they probably aren’t justified in that certainty unless it’s an independant tech cloning hard drives while they have custody of my computer.
that one is theft of intellectual property which i’m not sure is a real thing but it’ll do for now and i’m not trying to be a libertarian debate bro here.
