small snoring rock formation1d ago

Another hill I'm choosing to die on today: if you feel the need to hide your use of a tool, you shouldn't be using that tool.

If a tool has a "feature" where it can (try to) hide itself, to be undercover, that's a tool you should avoid.

Why? Because deep down, everyone involved knows the tool in question is unethical at best. Otherwise you - or the tool - wouldn't want to hide it.

A good tool is to be proud of. If you can't be proud of it, it's not a good tool.

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@algernon
"If you're about to do something you will be ashamed of, don't do it."
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@algernon
The Rules of Engagement for the US-led coalition in the counter-insurgency mission after Iraq war was a lengthy and very formal document.

But at the end of it was that line.

And I think that line belongs in more places in life.