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They don't consider it "philosophically correct", but customary. When you go to Japan does people following differing customs (like bowing) feel alienating? Tha
by zxcvcxz 11y ago
They don't consider it "philosophically correct", but customary. When you go to Japan does people following differing customs (like bowing) feel alienating? That's how I see this. This is part of a culture with certain customs.
What you're saying probably makes people of this culture feel alienated and many of them already are.
- mwfunk 11y agoThe FSF isn't a different culture though, not in the sense that you're talking about. They live in the exact same culture as the people around them. It's alienating because asking people reasonable questions and getting lectured about not phrasing the questions using their approved terminology* instead of getting a reasonable answer to those reasonable questions is rather alienating. * And their terminology is based on what always seemed like an intentional strategy of attaching very specific and nonintuitive definitions to commonly used words with dozens of dictionary definitions already. So if anyone has given up their privilege to lecture people about misusing terminology, it's them, because they created the confusion in the first place by overloading common terms instead of creating new terms to represent their (very unique and complicated) ideals.
- zxcvcxz 11y agoAh, see now you're being really disrespectful by denying that their culture even exists. Is America all one culture too? No, sub-cultures exist and I think that's fine.
- stcredzero 11y agoIs the main point to be alienated or is the point to further your cause through effective outreach? I suspect they thought the former was the main point, but group pathologies made it the latter. (Again, this applies to both groups I mention in my comment above.)