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Don't know about duty but I think everyone has a right to expect help and a right to give help. It makes for a better world where these rights are regularly exe

Don't know about duty but I think everyone has a right to expect help and a right to give help. It makes for a better world where these rights are regularly exercised.

hasenj 9y ago
> I think everyone has a right to expect help Of the people with whom you have formed strong social bonds, yes. Of random strangers? .. I don't think so. Unless they are bound by some sort of a contract (employees, servants, etc).
infodroid 9y ago
> everyone has a right to expect help and a right to give help This might make sense when asking a stranger for directions or for someone to help with your car problem, because the relationship is 1:1. But this breaks down in contexts where scale is a factor. When assisting users of your project, the relationship is 1:many. And if the project is popular, it is unfair to expect the author to be helping so many people.
- sorokod 9y ago
  I don't really see how 1:to many makes any difference in principle. Perhaps you were thinking of the amount of effort to help the many? As in 1:1 case it is up to the helper to decide how many resources, if any, to spend on helping. A society where the default position is that people deserve help is different from one that is based on the survival of the fittest.
  - infodroid 9y ago
    Even if the default position is to help, it can't be unconditional, there are limits. You don't have a right to expect help when it places an unreasonable burden on the helper.
icebraining 9y ago
I upvoted you because I think it's an interesting position, but you should realize that adding duties will discourage people from doing any contributions at all. It starts to feel like a case of "no good deed going unpunished".
- sorokod 9y ago
  I wasn't thinking of legal rights and obligations but rather of a moral ethos. The alternative brought to it's logical conclusion is Shkreli and rasing medicine prices by thousand percent.
  - chc 9y ago
    The alternative to giving away your personal time for free to an open-source project is gouging people on vital medication? That doesn't seem true in any sense.
Chris2048 9y ago
A right to "expect" is a right to control your own though, unless you mean something else?

Don't know about duty but I think everyone has a right to expect help and a right to give help. It makes for a better world where these rights are regularly exercised.

hasenj 9y ago

> I think everyone has a right to expect help Of the people with whom you have formed strong social bonds, yes. Of random strangers? .. I don't think so. Unless they are bound by some sort of a contract (employees, servants, etc).

infodroid 9y ago

> everyone has a right to expect help and a right to give help This might make sense when asking a stranger for directions or for someone to help with your car problem, because the relationship is 1:1. But this breaks down in contexts where scale is a factor. When assisting users of your project, the relationship is 1:many. And if the project is popular, it is unfair to expect the author to be helping so many people.

sorokod 9y ago
I don't really see how 1:to many makes any difference in principle. Perhaps you were thinking of the amount of effort to help the many? As in 1:1 case it is up to the helper to decide how many resources, if any, to spend on helping. A society where the default position is that people deserve help is different from one that is based on the survival of the fittest.
- infodroid 9y ago
  Even if the default position is to help, it can't be unconditional, there are limits. You don't have a right to expect help when it places an unreasonable burden on the helper.

icebraining 9y ago

I upvoted you because I think it's an interesting position, but you should realize that adding duties will discourage people from doing any contributions at all. It starts to feel like a case of "no good deed going unpunished".

sorokod 9y ago
I wasn't thinking of legal rights and obligations but rather of a moral ethos. The alternative brought to it's logical conclusion is Shkreli and rasing medicine prices by thousand percent.
- chc 9y ago
  The alternative to giving away your personal time for free to an open-source project is gouging people on vital medication? That doesn't seem true in any sense.

Chris2048 9y ago

A right to "expect" is a right to control your own though, unless you mean something else?