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I don't think it's your authority to say what should or shouldn't belong in a release you have no contribution to!

• robertlagrant 3y ago
  People are allowed to think things, and say what they think. Just as you did.
  • uoaei 3y ago
    So then we're making this about freedom as the central moral aspect. Then what about the freedom of the Python maintainers to post what they want? Why the selective defense?
    • robertlagrant 3y ago
      False equivalency. The equivalent would be someone commenting saying they shouldn't publish release notes because of Reasons, and I would defend their right to publish release notes.
      • uoaei 3y ago
        That's quite the reach. Morals are more general than that. This isn't high school debate club.
        • robertlagrant 3y ago
          > That's quite the reach. Unexplained claim about what's being reached for. > Morals are more general than that. Yes, obviously. How does this apply to what I said? > This isn't high school debate club. Okay?
          • uoaei 3y ago
            Your interpretation of "equivalency" is hard to understand in any context except one which seeks to limit the disagreement to an extremely narrow "debate" that just so happens to validate the ideology implied by your selective defense. My response is to point out that your narrowing of the space of dicussion is not only noticed but acknowledged and explicitly challenged. In a conversation about morals this framing of yours is inappropriate and counterproductive. It is notable that you responded in the way you did, implying you're trying to keep this tactic subversive rather than explicitly acknowledging it. Classic move in rhetoric, to be sure. You're acting like a smarmy high schooler who thinks they're good at reasoning because they're good at "debate". Clear?
            • robertlagrant 3y ago
              > that just so happens to validate the ideology No, it doesn't "just so happen", any more than saying "everyone should be given a fair trial" in a legal system "just so happens" to apply to the guilty and innocent. > Clear? Your response is entirely rhetoric, attempting to criticise me rather than my argument. It's clear how you feel; not what you think.
              • uoaei 3y ago
                Just saying something doesn't make it true :) You're going to have to do better than that to sneak your ideology by.
• rmbyrro 3y ago
  Careful not to fall into a fallacious argument... https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
  • wsve 3y ago
    That's not what "authority" meant in the above comment...