OT: Our clothing kills - [Fwd: Unsere Kleidung ist tödlich]

[Chris Bannister]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 05:17:24PM +0300, Reco wrote:
>  Hi.
> 
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:44:11 +0100
> Unknown Crewman <unknown.crewman at rocketship.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:17:14 +0300 Reco <recoverym4n at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > No, I want to be informed about the Avaaz activism. Avaaz is
> > > > harmless activism. For my taste it's just too often not smart.
> > > 
> > > You're saying this as if there was such a thing as a 'smart activism'.
> > 
> > I consider e.g. the following, including the downloads using the MIT access as smart:
> > https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt
> 
> And that lead to that story that caused Aaron Swartz to commit suicide,
> isn't it? That's hardly a fine example of 'smart activism' thing,
> considering the outcome IMO.

You can't control what actions another person decides to take.

> It's a good example of 'usual activism', though. Activist is risking
> everything, possibly including reputation and (in this case) - own life.

That would be an extreme case, in my view.

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