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Professionalism is much more than competence and/or skill, just like good sports is about good sportsmanship too.

• BlackDeath3 13y ago
  Perhaps it would be better for everybody if "professionalism" focused more on competence and skill, and less on politically-correct bullshit.
  • to3m 13y ago
    Professionalism encompasses the whole lot. And I believe the presence of GTFO is not especially professional. It's spoiling for a fight, basically. And it got one, and it will lose. Pathetic, really. (I really wanted to close with a saying along the lines of "one man's politically-correct bullshit is another person's basic standard of human decency", but I saw somebody say this - or something very much like it - once on HN, and it was followed up by a comment from somebody complaining that this level of politically-correct nonsense was infringing on his fundamental immutable human right not to be implicitly compared to something inhuman. Which I suppose is fair enough. And I certainly wouldn't want anybody to feel oppressed.)
    • BlackDeath3 13y ago
      Is spoiling for a fight necessarily a bad thing? As far as your saying goes - fair enough. The problem with total freedom, however, is that it's sort of an idealism. Now, I'm an idealistic kind of guy, but I realize that the idea is contradictory. Your freedom to feel "decent" infringes upon my freedom to drop my favorite dirty words in front of you, and vice-versa (though personally I don't give a fuck about being "made to feel inhuman"). So, what do we do?