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author | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2016-12-29 23:58:00 +0100 |
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committer | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2016-12-29 23:58:00 +0100 |
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diff --git a/computer/out-frying-pan-fire.rst b/computer/out-frying-pan-fire.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1262778 --- /dev/null +++ b/computer/out-frying-pan-fire.rst @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +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.”) |