Just thinking out loud... -- Initially it smells a bit like fascism to me, not sure why. Maybe some unspoken assumptions based on unquestioned privilege. > I

Just thinking out loud... -- Initially it smells a bit like fascism to me, not sure why. Maybe some unspoken assumptions based on unquestioned privilege. > If no one has told you yet, as your career in tech progresses you will eventually become a “custodian of culture.” There it is. Will I? progresses over time or progresses up the ladder? I'd have to assume the latter. >... but I don’t get to make the rules. IMHO enforcement is 10/10ths of the law. If you're enforcing it you're making it, you're taking personal responsibility for it. Being an authority is being as good as an author. Letting something die is the same as killing it. Omission is as good as a lie. > a tool for ending and defusing situations when other approaches don’t work. And that's the lede, buried. An argument of last resort. I would have started with that. That's why it smelled like fascism. It is, but it's got an on-by-default safety on it.