On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 9, 2014 18:18 UTC (Thu) by Funcan (guest, #44209)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by niner
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

I think verbal abuse of somebody who is verbally abusive is understandable if not a good thing.

Looking at a guy with a broken jaw and saying 'he only got punched because he punched the bouncer' is *not* victim blaming to my mind.

Death threats are rarely acceptable.

Petitions for somebody to loose their job are very context sensitive morally (e.g. I've personally called for and actively campaigned for certain politicians to loose their job, and feel I was absolutely morally right to do so), and I'm not aware enough of the context of the calls for Lennart's sacking, so I'll assume they were probably unreasonable until I learn otherwise.

Calls to hack off somebody's hands? That, depending on context is an obvious joke or entirely unreasonable.

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On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 13, 2014 10:57 UTC (Mon) by OdyX (guest, #58768) [Link] (1 responses)

A politician's mandate is not a job. The electing body should be allowed to ask for withdrawal from the elected mandate when things go wrong.

Petitioning to a corporation (which most petitioners are not even clients of) to get someone fired is a totally different thing, to which the only answer I'd expect from said corporation is /dev/null.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Nov 1, 2014 18:32 UTC (Sat) by blujay (guest, #39961) [Link]

> Petitioning to a corporation (which most petitioners are not even clients of) to get someone fired is a totally different thing, to which the only answer I'd expect from said corporation is /dev/null.

$ find . -mtime -365 -iname "*eich*"
./Brendan Eich "steps down" from Mozilla.html