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Richard W

1 reviews | Active since Oct 2013

11 May 2025, 12:23

Shopify's abuse of power

Almost 50% of the world, so one in two people, believe that if someone is sick, elderly, mentally or physically disabled, or really in any condition less than perfect 100% health (and how many of us have that, and if so, for how long), they are still human beings and so worthy of being treated with dignity and respect ie. we cannot treat them in just any way we see fit, and we most certainly don’t have the right to just dispose of them as if they were trash. In other words, even though their capacity may be limited - they may have dementia and not be able to recognize their own family members, have cancer and be bed-ridden, or even born with severe brain-damage - we don’t deem them executable, unworthy even to exist. However for holding to the view that those in the early developmental stages of life (ie. human beings with limited capacity), also deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, Shopify deplatform you - they literally strike you off - if you can believe it. What kind of a company cannot tolerate the view that all human beings, at all stages of life - ninety year old’s who have lost control over their bodily functions, yes, fifty year old’s with Parkinson’s disease, yes, those paralyzed due to their taking a bullet when serving the country in Afghanistan, yes, and those in the foetal (meaning offspring) stage of development too - also deserve to be treated with dignity and respect? What sort of directors do they have where even the idea of the value of human life from conception until death, is too abhorrent for them to bear? Yes there are two views on the matter, but how is it o.k. to deplatform us just because we follow one of them, just because we reject the fallacy that a baby developing in a womb of a woman is ‘their body’ (which part exactly do they think it is - a second nose, a third leg, an 11th finger ...,. - which part I ask you)? Yes woman do have the right to do anything they like to their bodies, but as any 10 year old can understand, the second, and developing body of the child in their womb - (take a look at scans if you don’t know what a developing baby looks like), - in no way constitutes part of that body that is theirs. This is not some religious fundamentalism or emotion-based argument - it is a simple scientifically and philosophically proven fact. Yet Shopify think it’s ok to remove us for simply holding this view. How *****ed, how ********* is that?

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