Le Monday 29 December 2008 17:21:16 Theodore Tso, vous avez écrit : > I do feel quite strongly, that aspirational goals, if they are going > to be in Foundation Documents, must be clearly *labelled* as > aspirational goals, and not as inflexible mandates that _MUST_ be > kept. In politics, can have aspirational ideals such as "a chicken in > every pot and two cars in every garage" which get used in campaign > slogans, but you don't put such things as a MUST in a country's > constitution.
Freedom of speech is a constitutional disposition, and I don't think it is something that could be acheive. It really is a constitutional act. It is also why I am against the Code of Conduct. Freedom of speech is an utopism that I support for Debian, and a Code of Conduct, or whatever you call it, is a way to shut those who do abid to the politically-correctness way of expressing oneself. As Orwell noticed it 50 years ago, restricting expressiveness is also restricting though. When someone shocks you with a broomstick, a Teletubies or a ironic picture, it breaks the lines and helps to reconsider you thoughs too. More generally, the Human Rights is also a list of idealistic acheivements. However, it is a fundamental document at the United Nations for instance. From time to time, people complain about the unrealistic consequences of them, such as our foreign minister here, but still they remain central in every place. To transpose the discussion, how would you argue in the same debate, but about utopism generated by the Human Rights ? That Guantanamo was a pragmatic need to the USA to protect themselves ? That torturing people in Algeria was a pragmatic need for the french people ? (*) Yes, I am exagerating, but adding bit of utopism is more then only stating its good will to someday probably perhaps do something about that. Romain (*) Please note that I am not insinuating that you are pro-guantanamo :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
