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It's fascinating how selective people's moral principles become.
When it's AI data centers being robbed, suddenly theft is funny, justified, or even worth celebrating. But if the victims were socialist politicians, transgender people, or any other group this community sympathizes with, the reaction would be outrage and demands for justice.
For the record, I have no issue with people supporting socialism or transgender rights. I only use those examples because they're emotionally charged topics in this community, and they illustrate how quickly people's standards change depending on who the victim is.
Either theft is wrong regardless of who the victim is, or your moral standard changes depending on whether you like the target. That's not a principle. It's favoritism dressed up as ethics.
The difference is that the data centers aren't part of the community. They're invasive, coming in to steal the water and power and spoil the area with heat and noise. The locals have no say or control over them.
Turning a blind eye towards damage done to them is a form of self defense.
I'm sorry, are you talking about me?
Because I never said I supported data centers. I was simply pointing out what I see as the two-faced nature of this community. In this thread, many Lemmy users are openly cheering on thieves stealing supplies from AI data center construction sites, yet those same people will turn around and condemn someone for not sharing their opinions on other issues.
Multiple people have already made assumptions about my beliefs, put words in my mouth, and assigned positions to me that I never argued for in the first place.
And that is another issue I see frequently on Lemmy: people arguing against a position they invented rather than the one someone actually stated.
For example, it often goes something like this:
"You don't like AI data centers, so you must be some kind of left-wing communist. Why don't you go eat avocado toast while listening to lo-fi music?"
Except none of that follows from what was actually said. Disagreeing with one thing does not automatically place someone into a political category.