To be fair, my role in structural violence, while not to the level of Sam Altman, is also far from non-zero.
And that's kind of what I'm trying to get at. I'm not saying that people should kill Sam Altman. I don't think I would kill him even if I was 100% sure I could get away with it. Killing is a very heavy thing, surely there are usually other ways to solve problems. But the idea that it's ok to advocate violence against certain people and not others, which I think is probably implicit in dang's thinking (I doubt he would be offended by calls to kill Putin, for example), should probably be made explicit. We can have a conversation about where the line is exactly.
And that's kind of what I'm trying to get at. I'm not saying that people should kill Sam Altman. I don't think I would kill him even if I was 100% sure I could get away with it. Killing is a very heavy thing, surely there are usually other ways to solve problems. But the idea that it's ok to advocate violence against certain people and not others, which I think is probably implicit in dang's thinking (I doubt he would be offended by calls to kill Putin, for example), should probably be made explicit. We can have a conversation about where the line is exactly.