Don’t do it because you feel intimidated or threatened or belittled. I suppose ideally, no. However, it runs against basic psychology to fail to consider the

Don’t do it because you feel intimidated or threatened or belittled. I suppose ideally, no. However, it runs against basic psychology to fail to consider the enormity of the motivating force that is this kind of coercion throughout human history. It has untold power. So many things - good and bad, but all having enormous displacement - have been spurred by motives like proving something to someone, showing someone up, avenging an insult, publicly righting a false claim, establishing identity, going through a socially acknowledged rite of passage, validating strength, etc. Sex, money, power... It seems to me patently self-evident that such forces underlie, in whole or in part, the actual activities of open-source developers, and technologists in general, though the level of indirection that must be navigated in order to see it is often greater than in more naked and crude testosterone plays like much hedge fund management and so on. Don't pretend that we're somehow above the general liabilities of humanity (if that's how you see them).