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>When I see a code of ethics bound to faith, I have to wonder what happens if the faith disappears. Let's do the math: Christianity has been around for around
by yodon 4y ago
>When I see a code of ethics bound to faith, I have to wonder what happens if the faith disappears.
Let's do the math:
Christianity has been around for around two orders of magnitude longer than any of the compilers or dev tools you're using on your project.
There are probably three orders of magnitude more people who use Christianity than are using any of the languages used in your project.
There are probably six orders of magnitude more priests and churches than there are maintainers on all but the top 1% of libraries (open source or closed source) you're using on your project.
I'm pretty sure the complete disappearance of Christianity from the face of the earth is not the highest probability risk to worry about for your project, and if it were to completely disappear there would probably be enough other stuff going along with that disappearance that we probably all have bigger things on our mind than the code of ethics published by a software team.
If the concern is just "what if the maintainers give up on Christianity," they're probably far more likely to get tired of programming (that happens far more often), but we can observe that their need to make a PR to edit their own code of conduct is not really going to be a particularly hard thing for them to pull off.
- iasay 4y agoI think you entirely managed to miss the point there. People don't tell you they lost their faith. They just stop following their code of ethics that was bound to it. I trust a faceless corporation over this attitude.
- nyolfen 4y agoany system of ethics ultimately must rest on axioms held on faith, there is nothing special about that faith being explicitly religious
- claytongulick 4y agoYou trust a faceless corporation more than someone who demonstrates the ability to learn, grow and adapt their thinking over time? You and I see this differently.
- iasay 4y agoThe corporation is more likely to be accountable from experience.
- threatofrain 4y agoIt is power which cannot be held accountable, regardless of who holds it. Depending on character means you are depending on self accountability, the most wishful of all forms of accountability. Self accountability is for weight loss.
- CRConrad 4y ago> Self accountability is for weight loss. Medication works better.
- jhgb 4y agoCorporations and accountable? Those things all too often don't belong into the same sentence in Western societies. Individuals get into prison all the time for transgressions much more minor than what corporations can get away with just by paying often a ridiculous fine. I'd say that individuals are much more beholden to accountability.
- iasay 4y agoYes orders of magnitude more accountable than the religious contribution to ethics of an individual.
- jhgb 4y agoSounds like a category error to me.
- kwhitefoot 4y ago> don't belong into the same sentence in Western societies don't belong in the same sentence in the United States. There are other societies in the West.
- diegoholiveira 4y ago> People don't tell you they lost their faith. They just stop following their code of ethics that was bound to it. Not sure if this is true. Most Western values came from Christianity, even though the society today is not as religious as it was in the past.
- iasay 4y ago
- CRConrad 4y ago> Most Western values came from Christianity, even though the society today is not as religious as it was in the past. I think it's the other way around: Like with many holidays, Christianity usurped previosly existing ethics and claimed them as its own. It's not as if there were no ethics in the years we write "BC[E]" after.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoBy the numbers far more people have suffered under these dithering superstitions, that doesn't make them objectively better.
- strager 4y ago> far more people have suffered Compared to what?
- iasay 4y agoThan if they didn’t exist
- paulryanrogers 4y agoCompared to modern sensibilities like equality for women, prohibition of slavery, trial by a jury of peers, medicine based on evidence, etc.
- strager 4y agoChristians and their faith lead the slavery prohibition movement. I don't know the history of the other things you mentioned.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoAfter only two thousand years of enabling slavery. Slow clap.
- strager 4y agoThat's a human problem, not a Christian problem. Cultures around the world enabled slavery.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoChristianity's own scriptures and holy men called for the return of slaves to their masters. Just because other cultures also supported slavery doesn't mean Christianity didn't contribute to that horror.