On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 1:20:05 PM UTC+5:30, Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 22-04-17 om 13:17 schreef Rustom Mody: > > On Friday, April 21, 2017 at 2:38:08 PM UTC+5:30, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> Op 20-04-17 om 17:25 schreef Rustom Mody: > >>> But more importantly thank you for your polite and consistent pointing > >>> out to > >>> Ben Finney that his religion-bashing signature lines [many of them] and > >>> his > >>> claims to wish this list be welcoming are way out of sync. > >> I don't know. I think a concept like welcoming is too complex, to draw such > >> simple conclusions. First of all we have to make a choice about the public > >> we > >> want to be welcoming to. I'm rather confident we can agree we don't want to > >> be welcoming to bigots on this list. > >> > >> ... > > Generally agree > > [though I wonder how you will decide what constitutes a 'bigot'. Look at the > > suggestion in the very subject of these threads] > > Well that's a tough one off course since research seems to suggest we are all > bigots to some degree. So if I see behaviour that looks biggoted, I tend to > wait to see how the person reacts after others have pointed out the possible > problematic nature of his behaviour. > > Of course there is the problem of how sensitive we should all be. Is it so > problematic if I use an idiom like: "How could I have been so blind". Is > such an idiom really a slight vs blind people? > > >> Do you think critising any idea in one's signature is enough to conclude > >> that > >> this person doesn't wish this list to be welcoming? > > Lets try a thought-experiment: > > A: Islam is glorious > > B: Religion is garbage > > C: Christ is the best > > > > Will these statements get equal treatment as spam/as censure etc if they > > appear > > on this list? > > That doesn't seem to be fair, since only one is being critical. > > What about: > D: Homeopathy/Astrology is bunk.
Astrology is bunk… Or is it 'fake-news' ? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/can-a-full-moon-really-affect-our-behavior/2016/01/15/8de3018e-b940-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html Maybe the idea that tides are controlled by the moon and that people awake and sleep with the sun is also fake? The influence of Jupiter, Saturn, etc is — for astrology-buffs at least — just a refinement of the influence of the sun, moon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
