In this case, one of the purposes - there are others - of Meta is the sexual harassment of children.
Meta could self-dissolve, or cease operations, but rather than that, they continue their purpose. Implicitly, the sexual of harassment is worth it.
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I could name or describe a number of systems right now that have outcomes that we could all agree are contrary or misaligned with their purpose, so unless the author is equivocating things like “purpose”, or “system”, I don’t think your premise is well founded, nor do I think your conclusion has merit.
The point is that if you could describe systems that are contrary to their purpose and have negative outcomes, one is justified in referring to them as systems whose purpose is that negative outcome. Doing otherwise is arguing from conclusions.
> In this case, one of the purposes - there are others - of Meta is the sexual harassment of children.
I disagree as well. It's too naive to say "the purpose of meta is sexual harassment of children".
Purpose and result are not hard linkable in so many cases.
An obtuse example is a kitchen knife. So easy to say a knife's purpose is murder thus knives should "cease-operations".
So easy to say *one of* a knife's purpose is murder thus knives should "cease-operations".
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I did what you asked, but fail to see how that changes anything. Please if you're going to ask me to change something, have that change be meaningful.
I can rephrase it in terms of intentionality if you wish: Meta has a choice every day to exist or not and the not. When choice to exist results in the sexual harassment of children then transitively Meta is choosing that consequence.
To address your knife analogy, a knife alone is not a system. A knife plus a human plus another human being stabbed by the knife is. In that scenario, the person creating the system, the knife-wielder, should(like Meta), choose to dissolve the system. I think, at least for the knife+human+human stabbing system, that's quite easy to agree with.