On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Mike Godwin <mgod...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> I'm sorry, Thomas, but until people learn to use jurisprudential >>> concepts such as "moral rights" properly, I have a moral obligation to >>> point out where they are used mistakenly. >> >> >> You have a moral obligation? I thought you dismissed morality as a >> religious belief for which there is no evidence in the physical world. >> >> Or is it merely the concept that we ought to give credit to authors that you >> deem to be religious in nature? > > This discussion has descended far below the threshold of usefulness > now. If there's nothing else to talk about besides thinly-veiled ad > hominems and "I know more philosophy then you" mental masturbation, > could this discussion please go off-list?
Hear, hear. I'm glad that I can respond to Andrew's post here, because if I had been replying to either Thomas, Anthony or Mike the following would have seemed to be directed at someone specifically, which it is not: Please Stop It. This thread used to be on the "Re-licensing" issue, which is an issue many people are interested it. Thus, you can't even bring up the usual "Well, it's off-topic, but everyone can filter it out of their inbox by a subject-filter" counter-argument, because many people actually *do* care about the Re-licensing and do not intend at all to filter it out of their inbox. What has happened, though, is that the thread has first been hijacked by a discussion about "moral rights" and other legal and philosophical concepts (which I myself found at least interesting, if completely off-topic) and now, it has gone down to a rather pathetic "I have studied philosophy, you have no clue." "I don't need to have studied philosophy to have a clue." "I have studied Mathematics and you are a bad philosopher" type of chat, which is an absolute no-go. Really, take it offlist. I hope I don't need to enforce this plea because I'm not actually in the mood to do so. Michael -- Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l