Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines

Post by flomble » Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 12:35 PM UTC

prepend wrote: post #385

flomble wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> No wonder people leaning towards the Asperger/autistic spectrum of brutal honesty would state that; such is their nature. Actually, it is not "their nature". The nature of people on the spectrum is to have difficulty understanding social conventions. Having a system whereby social conventions are explicitly spelled out in detail is likely to help people on the spectrum adhere to them, because they no longer have to…

“Actually, it is not "their nature". The nature of people on the spectrum is to have difficulty understanding social conventions.” Holy moly, please don’t tell me what I do and don’t have difficulty understanding. Even if you were a clinical psychologist, it’s a spectrum and throwing out what entire populations do or do not understand is so weird, I’m not sure what point it serves. Even if I was the elected spokesper…

I apologise for the generalisation. That was too broadly and absolutely worded. But I would stand by the idea that "people on the spectrum are more likely to have difficulty intuitively learning social conventions".

Is that still a nebulous statement?

Post by foolrush » Sat, Nov 03, 2018, 7:29 PM UTC

winston_smith wrote: post #407

foolrush wrote: post #403

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Cabs are political, see Uber. ISPs are political, see net neutrality and state providing. Facebook is political because it is a corporate entity defined in law. But do go on...

"X is political because it is a corporate entity defined in law." is a fully general argument that every company ever "is political", which is the dilution into meaningless I mentioned earlier. And for all the things you mention, I support making them less political rather than more, and so should you. Finding an example of a politicized aspect of a thing is not an argument that it should become more politicized.

Or optionally, a corporation under capitalism is a political entity with political implications?

Your pick, though, it sure seems meaningless...

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