Aigars Mahinovs <aigar...@gmail.com> writes: > Thank you very much for the write-up. I do highly appreciate the time > taken to express your position. Now we do have a clear and coherent > moral position that could be read and understood.
> I clearly disagree on a few key things, but, as you said, there is > little point discussing it if no decision is to be made right now. Thank you, and also I owe you an apology. The discussion here has been helpful to me in figuring out what my position is (I didn't have a firm position at the start of the discussion), but once I figured that out, I should have stopped trying to argue and just laid it out. It's the trap that I keep falling for where it feels like it would take less energy to just make this one point, but it makes the conversation less coherent and, with replies and misunderstandings and the temptation to turn up the rhetoric, doesn't take up less energy either. You are correct that I started characterizing how your arguments came across to me rather than just stating my own position, and in the process failed at disagreeing without being disagreeable. I am sorry for doing that. My annoyance clearly broke through in ways that weren't productive or particularly respectful. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
