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+Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
+###################################
+
+:date: 2014-04-07T09:55:00
+:category: computer
+:tags: homosexuality, cultureWar, BrendanEich, mozilla
+
+Let me quote here one comment_ in the current discussion about Brendan
+Eich and his contribution for Prop 8:
+
+ I’ve decided I will let my web browser provider think whatever they
+ want, so long as they don’t support fascist segregation of ideas
+
+ -- ertdfg
+
+.. _comment:
+ http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/mozilla-is-human/#comment-11884
+
+I have struggled since the start of this one particular battle of the
+Kulturkampf with a question how should I react. I certainly value
+honoring your opponents in the discussion (which is IMHO much better
+concept than mere freedom of expression, which is rather limited and
+legalistic) very highly, and if that was in stake, I wouldn’t mind to
+loose my browser for it (or job, or many other things; I grew up in the
+Communist Czechoslovakia, so I know a little bit what I am talking
+about). However, is this the case? And is loosing Firefox which
+otherwise IS the most freedom-loving browser around (switching to Chrome
+feels to me truly like jumping straight out of the frying pan into the
+center of the fire).
+
+Thinking about some other hot topic issues (actually participation of
+a Protestant in Eucharist; tell me about controversial issue, this was
+the one actual battles with dead people lying on the battlefield were
+fought for!) I came to the preliminary conclusion that the worst thing
+is when your opponents drive your decision by negation. Back to the
+issue of Firefox, Brendan, and tolerance. The worst thing we can do is
+to switch from Firefox, and let ourselves drawn on the shitty
+(literally, that's the stuff fought with over there) battlefield of
+these cultural wars. If we want to keep our discussion on more civilized
+level, we shouldn’t let be drawn to the level of bigots. “Answer not
+a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.”
+(Proverbs 6:24 KJV; or in the modern paraphrase “Don’t argue with idiots
+because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with
+experience.”)