as if hitting a literal download button “supports sickos like this”.

some thoughts that popped up in my head when i saw this video were:

-i initially thought people were buying this on the basis that this was the only source code release (i’d misremembered) but it took too long for this video to clarify that 4chan was the one who’d released the source code first. if the predator in question were the one to have leaked the source code first, i feel shitlibs like these would straight up reject it just because it happens to be from a predator. “don’t get your files from the 'philes!” oh yeah? if a child predator were to cure cancer, would you reject the invention? you’d rather millions and billions die just because the inventor was a bad individual? fucking pathetic.

-technically, what would a predator even do to a downloadable file? he has not changed it, it is only the source from which you are getting it with which you are concerned. but your anger tells me we should apply the same principle everywhere. so you might as well buy nothing at all, because they’re all from exploitative corporations, just as these predators exploit children; after all, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. i can see where your emotions arise, but it is clear that people are downloading from steam just for convenience. they have no care as to who they got the downloads from. if you care so much, why don’t you boycott all the goods produced by capitalists?

-reiterating once again, it is clear that people are downloading this copy of the minecraft legacy edition only out of convenience. they do not wish to learn how to compile the source code that 4chan has released. you can ramble about tech illiteracy all you want, but think about the demographic who’s downloading this: probably just bored teenagers who don’t want to have to pay for actual minecraft, and they just want to conveniently press a few download and install buttons to get the game up and running. they don’t want to bother with all this drama just because your dogma wants people to be bothered to go through the complicated route of learning how to compile source code just to avoid specifically downloading files from a predator.

essentially, hitting the download button isn’t going to “support” an online predator. but these absolute sheep in the comments section are frolicking high as shit in their moral high ground that they believe they have over just not clicking a few buttons. guess what, shitlibs, those buttons don’t do shit. reminds me of that one scene in the show “the good place” where some dude goes to the bad place (aka just hell) just for buying roses for his grandma, but those roses just so happened to be unethically sourced.

a comment that also ticked me off here was “there is no difference between supporting a [pedophile] and being one”. oh yeah? well, how do you define “supporting a pedophile”? clicking buttons, that’s all? and you think it’s up to the individual to endlessly boycott every service that’s ever been made and never thinking about the system that gave rise to pedophilic acts in the first place?

these shitlibs, istg