Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:54:08AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > I did not mean this to be argumentative. A rhetorical flourish, > > yes. The quote is from a US politicial, and the analogy between the > > constitutions and bill of rights was amusing. > > Uh, surely it's obvious that following any example from a political arena > is going to be much more argumentative than necessary? > > Politics is the art of making people who disagree with you look stupid > and immoral. [...]
I hope any debian developer who is also a local councillor (or higher?) would disagree with that. Further, I suggest this sort of belief is one reason why the debian project government seems relatively nasty, noisy ineffective when compared with my small village's council, despite both having about the same budget. There's a distrust of politics in the debian project, which is understandable given the bad actions of some politicians towards freedoms most DDs hold dear. However, if certain rhetorical flourishes (including "Uh, surely it's obvious that...") get left at the door, we could get more good stuff done. That said, as someone unfamiliar with US politics, I didn't get that reference at all. Also, I'm off to other stuff. This thread appears to have stopped being useful and I've voted already. Regards, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
