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"If your values aren't used to inform who you're doing business with, why do you bother pretending to have values at all? This [merge request] demonstrates that
by sonotathrowaway 7y ago
"If your values aren't used to inform who you're doing business with, why do you bother pretending to have values at all? This [merge request] demonstrates that you don't have any values except 'we want to make money, and it doesn't matter who gets hurt.'"
It sounds a lot like GitLab has a set of values that it doesn’t feel comfortable openly championing, so it just lies.
- buboard 7y agothat black or white thinking sounds fallacious
- sonotathrowaway 7y agoWhich part is black/white thinking - the belief that values need to inform your actions?
- buboard 7y ago"why do you bother pretending to have values at all?" plus how does one go from "dont discuss politics at work" to "they have no values at all"?
- sonotathrowaway 7y agoBy performing work that contradicts their professed values? How is it fallacious to call values pretend if they don’t actually inform any decision made?
- buboard 7y agothey said they ll do business with customers that are incompatible with their values. That doesnt sound like an absolute amoral acceptance. its instead a statement that they won't be restricted to 100%-ethically-equivalent companies. You 're stretching the argument to absurd proportions
- sonotathrowaway 7y agoThe consequence of being guided by your values is that you intentionally forfeit opportunities to enable things that are contrary to your values. Even with the championing of today’s moral relativism, I struggle to understand how that is an ‘absurd’ result.