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For a long list of reasons, both philosophical and practical, I strongly dislike the adoption of community code of conducts. One reason that's not been mention
by lamby 14y ago
For a long list of reasons, both philosophical and practical, I strongly dislike the adoption of community code of conducts.
One reason that's not been mentioned elsewhere is that they make an act wrong because it offends a magical set of rules, rather than the act being wrong in its own right. Lawyers would recognise this as the difference between malum in se vs malum prohibitum. I don't speak for anyone else, but this is not a subtle difference for me.
The latter seems entirely at odds with a distributed and obstensibly non-hierarchical open source project.
- abraininavat 14y agoAs if the line between malum in se and malum prohibitum was well defined. What you consider a magical set of rules others consider basic requirements for fostering an environment of respect and civil discourse. I get that you don't agree. But you have no rational basis to assert that the acts prohibited by the community code of conducts aren't malum in se.