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So you're saying it's impossible to respect a person you don't agree with? Be careful; saying that disagreement and disrespect are the same thing takes you on a

by mastazi 11y ago

So you're saying it's impossible to respect a person you don't agree with? Be careful; saying that disagreement and disrespect are the same thing takes you on a very very slippery slope. Plenty of tyrants around the world justify illiberal laws and cruel policies citing such assumptions.

CuriousSkeptic 11y ago
No no, I respect a lot of people I do not agree with. What I'm saying is that even if you disagree you can respect only if you recognize the motivations behind someones labor. To say that GNU is good technology but don't agree with its premise is disrespectful because, by definition the design has failed if you don't agree with the agenda. So you could say that you respect the effort but think it has failed, or you can say that you like the result but don't really respect its origins.