My ethics teacher in high school summed it up well I thought in stating your rights end where mine begin.
Owen Rubel oru...@gmail.com On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 1:14 PM Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 2:32 PM Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > On 30/03/2019 13.23, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > > > > > > >> On Mar 30, 2019, at 1:32 PM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >>> I'm not going to (intentionally) actively discriminate for or > against anyone. But I will protect your right, as an individual, to do so > as long as you protect my right to help you achieve the > > >>> right balance in our broader communities by stamping out the > existence of any discrimination (positive or negative). > > >>> Community over code > > >> > > >> How do you square this with the code of conduct? In my reading, unless > > >> the discrimination threaded some extremely fine needle, it would be in > > >> violation and a good argument could be made for the defense of it > > >> being in violation as well. > > > > > > > > > Discrimination, by definition, is unjust, unwarranted or prejudicial. > > > > We discriminate all day long in our every day life, it's fine, as long > > as it serves a greater good (or our personal selves). I don't get to go > > into your house without you inviting me in, you don't get to claim > > social benefits while you have a job, I can't apply for TAC - all > > perfectly valid, legal cases of discrimination, that would not violate > > the CoC. It's more about the action and consequences than the > > dichotomous definition of a term here. > > But those aren't the kinds of discrimination that anyone would talk > about needing to be "protected" as a right or "stamped out of > existence", nor the ones relevant to the current threads on > D&I/meritocracy. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
