While I donāt agree with @brantlymillegan, I disagree with your conclusion that one who condemns acts they believe to be evil also believes the person committing those acts to be evil. There are many facets to a person. You can condemn one part of a personās life or choices without condemning the whole. Further, @brantlymillegan may just be expressing his sincerely held religious beliefs, consistent with his faith. Similarly, condemning @brantlymillegan for those beliefs and treating him as, somehow, an evil person would also be fallacious.
Nevertheless, we are entitled to have an opinion as to those beliefs and voice our objection, as I have done. What one may conclude is that @brantlymillegan used extremely poor judgment in expressing those beliefs in a public way that is likely to caused a negative perception of TNL, DAO, and ENS, because he failed to make clear that his tweets were not in his role as a spokesperson for TNL, DAO, or ENS, and, more importantly, it was reckless conduct, as he knew or should have known, that his tweets would have a negative impact on ENS, if the reader could not discern a distinct separation between personal beliefs and ENSās core values. To cancel him or censure him as a group could be viewed as being inconsistent with our decentralized nature, as it becomes a slippery slope of monitoring conduct deemed to be offensive. Any consequence to be suffered must be consistent with our Constitution and Code of Conduct.
Mike drop. It would be nice if everyone would swallow their pride and look at this objectively. @brantlymillegan messed up. He should apologize. Not for holding his beliefs, but for the reasons mentioned right here by @berrios.eth If he canāt do that we likely have a problem. Ball is really in his court.
āCancel cultureā is democracy itself in action and calling it exactly that shows poor judgement. However, that is probably the least poor judgement of many of the judgements issued here today so I can personally give it a pass. If you call it cancel culture, you do not deserve a response because no one owes you one. A mob is a mob until it is not; then it becomes civil reform.
Mic* drop bro. Dropped out of Kindergarten?
He defended pedophilia and rape. I am talking civil liability in an ongoing crisis around the world. He aint coming with his apology. He laughed at those who offered him a chance at one 12387349 times yesterday.
I am opening a vote for the DAO to decide as a delegate. Thatās about it. I do not decide what happens. If DAO decides to keep him, Iāll have to suck it up, admit that I was wrong against a majority of the people here in this ecosystem, and keep chugging along to build. Thatās how it works in a grown up world.
Who is āHeā? I am merely pointing out fallacious reasoning. I have clearly voiced my opinion. Cancel culture is not democracyānothing has been put to a vote.
He needs to step down before the vote and ENS twitter needs to get to crafting a tweet clarifying that they donāt hold these views. It looks like heās positioning himself to double down and go into the victim role himself. Itās about business and PR and not being reckless and incendiary with your words given your position.
It appears like Brantly is looking to make it now about religious persecution and free speech and cancel culture, does ENS want him as director ops while he publicly fights his religious battles with all of web3? He can do that without representing the face of ENS as a web3 platform. Please step down and quit digging your hole deeper and dragging ENS into it @brantlymillegan
Of course not. I wouldnāt stop using ENS if he stays. Civil reform requires persistence. Same for Vitalik. Plus, Vitalik philosophises. Brantly hates. Massive difference. Lastly, Brantly =/= ENS
ENS is a decentralized protocol for on-chain name register, itās not some typical corporate entity that changes their twitter pictures to rainbow for one month just so lqbt mob can see their virtue signaling and get the message that they are āpart of the tribeā. Brantly sticking to his values it not ādoubling downā, itās being a human, a man, not changing his nature under social pressure. Him being traditional Christian has nothing to do with immutable on-chain smart contract system known as ENS. For all you should know he is just an ethereum address and his existence is represented by 20 bytes in eth realm.
@vbuterin has done a lot to promote ENS at every chance he has. He has touched on controversial issues before but he uses thorough logic to open a dialogue or express a viewpoint and heās not careless with his position or words in this regard. Brantly appears to like the drama and provocation and attention and this is problematic for ENS as a business. It looks like he wants to turn this into a holy war with the way heās doubling down.