> on an IRC discussion I came out with this comment: > > enrico> discussions in Debian share problems with political > enrico> discussions IRL: > people voice their impressions as if they were their opinions > > So, if that is a problem, how do we fix it? > > We can't fix it by saying "take all messages as if they were > impressions and not opinions" because then people who actually voice > their opinions would not be taken seriously.
This has been bugging me for a while now. Since this is a fairly informal list and it's aplicable to the topic at hand, I might as well go ahead and mention it here. Has anyone brought up the fact that that communities of high-octane geeks tend to include statistically abnormal numbers of people with Asperger's Syndrome and HFA? I've seen several flame wars on debian lists where it looked to me that one party didn't fully grasp that the other was a bit autistic. Speaking as someone with asperger's, I can tell you that I'm fairly confused by the above statements. Not only would it not occur to me to try and differentiate opinion from impression, I don't see what place either have in a technical discussion at all. The need to rely on either outside the realm of aesthetics shows a lack of intellectual rigor. Am I totally out of left field here? Could part of the problem be that 25% of the dds have asperger's and another 25% have never heard of it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
