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"...isn't there a point where--when you are proselytizing about the evil labors of the man who died 24 hours earlier--you're kind of just an asshole?" Are you s
by laughinghan 15y ago
"...isn't there a point where--when you are proselytizing about the evil labors of the man who died 24 hours earlier--you're kind of just an asshole?" Are you saying there is no amount of "evil labors" a man can do for which he deserves nothing but glorification for 24 hours? At risk of Godwinning, I think you and I can both name a historical figure or three for whom we'd have no qualms "proselytizing the evil labors of" less than 24 hours after they died.
The point being, your ad hominem is wrong, Stallman isn't being an asshole, he just saw Jobs as you see those historical figures. The fact that we all (yes, including me) disagree with that view of Jobs is irrelevant to and absolutely does not call for an ad hominem against Stallman.
- gavinlynch 15y agoI was not directly countering Stallmans' "Jobs is evil because he creates popular, 'closed' systems" with the fact that he is an asshole. I was merely pointing out that he is an asshole. No ad hominem here. I don't have the time to take on the differences between practical and theoretically closed systems of which Stallman speaks. And the implication of your Godwin reference is the height of absurdity.