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Singling out individuals/incidents would support the author's epistemic authority but would undermine their moral authority on the topic

• debacle 14y ago
  That's not how the real world works.
  • steele 14y ago
    What about my reply is contrary to "how the real world works"? I'm fairly confident that if this article had a link to tangible occurrences two things will occur in "the real world": 1) readers will react to those particular incidents 2) the author of the article will be called a hypocrite
    • Symmetry 14y ago
      The point is, moral authority doesn't help at all in changing the behavior of people who aren't on your side already. It's very important with leadership and group cohesion, so not opening yourself up to calls of being a hypocrite is something the leader of an open source project should consider when dealing with jerks in their project. But it isn't particularly useful in effecting change from the outside.
• deleted 14y ago
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