Hi, On 2014-11-27, Nathann Cohen <nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also, what is felt as "loud" by one is not "loud" for > another, so you cannot just hit everybody whenever that happens. > Different cultures.. We certainly saw that in the recent posts.
+1 In another post, someone referred to a code of conduct as an "objective" set of rules to adhere to. My answer was that social rules aren't objective. To slightly elaborate on it: Assume that the rule "Don't exclude people based on gender or cultural background" was part of the code. Well, sounds reasonable and objective, right? All very fine. But as soon as person B wants to APPLY the "objective" rule to a concrete situation in order to decide whether person A has violated the rule, person B needs to *interprete* person A's statements; s/he needs to make more or less educated guesses on the motivation behind A's statements; and so on. And this whole interpretation process is not objective at all. This, in particular, holds in a pluralistic society such as the one formed by Sage developers. Based on different cultural backgrounds, B may wrongly assume a bad motivation/intention of A's statements. Hence, as soon as B starts to publicly blame A based on his/her wrong assumptions, s/he is in fact violating the very same rule that s/he pretends to use against A. Put differently: The attempt to enforce the code of conduct will sooner or later constitute a violation of the code of conduct. And in fact, it has already happened in this thread---sooner than I thought. Best regards, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
