* Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) <936-846-2...@kylheku.com> [2020-02-22 23:46]: > On 2020-02-22 12:31, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > > Andreas Enge, 22/02/20 21:48: > > > If anything, this message shows how much a code of conduct is needed. > > > > Or maybe it shows there's a language barrier. Let's not rush to judge > > non-native English speakers, especially after having admitted that the > > meaning of their message is unclear. > > I'm a native-level English speaker. > > > I think their contribution can be rephrased as: what kind of message > > do you think a document focused on matters like "Enforcement", "Ban", > > "Correction", "Warning" gives? Is it the intended message? If not, > > what could be done? > > No, my contribution cannot be rephrased like that. A better > approximation of the semantics of my message that the document > is the product of a mental sickness that underlies authoritarian > personalities. > > What could be done? Printing it out and burning it, by my estimation.
Human mind is a perfect computer (reference to Dianetics https://www.dianetics.org/?video=dn_intro), so it makes conclusions based on the data it has. Example is a poor guy who is found in a situation without food, and only data that person has is that food can be stolen, so person steals it from the supermarket or the garden. The mind depends on the data. It is a computer. If one puts a lot of social policing data into the mind, like code of conducts, banning, governing people, coercion of people into what small group of people wants, various environments and contexts -- that makes the person do or behave in different manner, but mind is probably functioning perfectly. Programmer's mind is functioning probably way better than average people's mind. Further, mental sickness does not exist. Reference to Szasz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz#%22Myth_of_mental_illness%22 "Mental illness" is an expression, a metaphor that describes an offending, disturbing, shocking, or vexing conduct, action, or pattern of behavior, such as packaged under the wide-ranging term, schizophrenia, as an "illness" or "disease". Szasz wrote: "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic."[13]:85 He maintained that, while people behave and think in disturbing ways, and those ways may resemble a disease process (pain, deterioration, response to various interventions), this does not mean they actually have a disease. To Szasz, disease can only mean something people "have", while behavior is what people "do". Diseases are "malfunctions of the human body, of the heart, the liver, the kidney, the brain" while "no behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. That's not what diseases are." So all I can think of it is that it is not nice to say "you are sick" -- but I understand that there is something disturbing, shocking, offending, and that is why one could classify somebody as "sick" in the meaning of "mentally disturbed." -- yet I don't find it right to classify people any how. What we have to do here at hand, is to recognize the true intention of the group of 5, like is their true intention maybe just to get rid of the RMS for the sake of dividing the GNU project -- or they really have the intention to do what they are claiming they want to do. Myself, I am judging by their promotion of free software philosophy, which is very poor and by their own upholding of the principles they want to set for others. Jean