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FWIW there are still people (dozens of us!) who don't feel the need to be artificially offended by a bit of hyperbole on an internet forum.

bifrost 3y ago
I concurr.
- throwawayurlife 3y ago
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kragen 3y ago
my objection is not that mass graves, piles of mangled bodies, your close friends unexpectedly disappearing into pink mist, and terrible stenches are too sacred to be used as a metaphor for something else my objection is that warfare involves people intentionally harming each other, and that doesn't seem to be what's going on here. it's not that war is a more extreme version of the situation; it's that it's directionally different rather, hashicorp is struggling to not go bankrupt, so they've decided to switch to making a proprietary product instead of an open-source products; and terraform users, naturally enough, are reluctant to make their infrastructure vulnerable to a proprietary software license. hashicorp is not intentionally harming terraform users, and terraform users are not intentionally harming hashicorp they're just not continuing their previous cooperation
- 0ct4via 3y ago
  Not sacred enough for you to invoke the Holocaust in a discussion about data protection legislation and the "right to be forgotten" within mere hours of this statement, however... Such hypocrisy, attacking others for "rhetoric" that needs to be "dialled back a bit" when you're every bit as guilty of the exact. same. thing.
  - kragen 3y ago
    please note that the comment you are replying to says the opposite of what you are implying it does; it says 'my objection is not that mass graves, (...) are too sacred' the comment you are referring to, for anyone who is interested, concerns the question of whether or not there is a higher standard of morality to which legislation can be held, or whether legislation itself is the ultimate moral authority, or whether there is in fact no objective standard of morality at all. anyone who is interested in that kind of thing can read it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147305

bifrost 3y ago

I concurr.

throwawayurlife 3y ago
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kragen 3y ago

my objection is not that mass graves, piles of mangled bodies, your close friends unexpectedly disappearing into pink mist, and terrible stenches are too sacred to be used as a metaphor for something else my objection is that warfare involves people intentionally harming each other, and that doesn't seem to be what's going on here. it's not that war is a more extreme version of the situation; it's that it's directionally different rather, hashicorp is struggling to not go bankrupt, so they've decided to switch to making a proprietary product instead of an open-source products; and terraform users, naturally enough, are reluctant to make their infrastructure vulnerable to a proprietary software license. hashicorp is not intentionally harming terraform users, and terraform users are not intentionally harming hashicorp they're just not continuing their previous cooperation

0ct4via 3y ago
Not sacred enough for you to invoke the Holocaust in a discussion about data protection legislation and the "right to be forgotten" within mere hours of this statement, however... Such hypocrisy, attacking others for "rhetoric" that needs to be "dialled back a bit" when you're every bit as guilty of the exact. same. thing.
- kragen 3y ago
  please note that the comment you are replying to says the opposite of what you are implying it does; it says 'my objection is not that mass graves, (...) are too sacred' the comment you are referring to, for anyone who is interested, concerns the question of whether or not there is a higher standard of morality to which legislation can be held, or whether legislation itself is the ultimate moral authority, or whether there is in fact no objective standard of morality at all. anyone who is interested in that kind of thing can read it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147305