Eric S Raymond: Abolish “Codes of Conduct” and all the Orwellian doublespeak that goes with them. It's less bad that people sometimes got their feelings hurt th

Eric S Raymond: Abolish “Codes of Conduct” and all the Orwellian doublespeak that goes with them. It's less bad that people sometimes got their feelings hurt than it is to institutionalize a means by which dissenting opinions are crushed under the rubric of “not nice”. 100% agreed. And the reason why we can't have nice things. Co-opting by people with bad intentions, posing as saviors. Edit: for the fast downvoter: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8609 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8609 The cost of a culture in which avoiding offense trumps the liberty to speak is that crybullies control the discourse.