Hi, On 2020-06-13 07:45, MG wrote:
Believe me, I do so understand that - but as an atheist by choice from a young age, I do not want to live in a deeply irrational world, where everything you say can be considered racist or insensitive, even if that makes no sense whatsoever, just because somebody believes it to be that way.
The problem we are trying to solve is "If something could be offensive to even a small subset of people, let's try and avoid that as much as possible".
And being "sensitive" is about how a person "feels". Rationalism deals with "thought" and cannot be used with feelings :) So, this initiative is a good one by all of us in an attempt to ensure that even the most sensitive person feels "welcome" and included.
The base of any free and just society for me needs to be reason and concensus, not any part dictating their perceived truth to the other.
This is a very true statement that we all should keep in mind in any community effort. And here, like always, Paul did ask for comments/thought :) And I am in favour of the aliases and gradual deprecation of names that could be deemed offensive.
-- Thank you, Balachandran Sivakumar
