• thedruid@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You do realize the ends do not justify the means?

    You do realize that MANY people on social media have emotional and mental situations occuring and that these experiments can have ramifications that cannot be traced?

    This is just a small reason why this is so damn unethical

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      1 day ago

      In that case, any interaction would be unethical. How do you know that I don’t have an intense fear of the words “justify the means”? You could have just doomed me to a downward spiral ending in my demise. As if I didn’t have enough trouble. You not only made me see it, you tricked me into typing it.

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        21 hours ago

        you are being beyond silly.

        in no way is what you just posited true . unsuspecting nd non malicious social faux pas are in no way equal to Intentionally secretive manipulation used to garner data from unsuspecting people

        that was an embarrassingly bad attempt to defend an indefensible position, and one no-one would blame you for deleting and re-trying

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          18 hours ago

          Well, you are trying embarrassingly hard to silence me at least. That is fine. I was definitely positing an unlikely but possible case, I do suffer from extreme anxiety and what sets it off has nothing to do with logic, but you are also overstating the ethics violation by suggesting that any harm they could cause is real or significant in a way that wouldn’t happen with regular interaction on random forums.