On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 02:43:51PM -0400, micah anderson wrote: > Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org> writes: > > And taking the risk to be called an ochlocrat once again, I would also > > argue against accomodating vegans if the proposed solution would be that > > everyone has to eat vegan food all the time. > If you had a checkbox that said "I need to eat meat at every meal" and a > special meal was taken care of for you, would you be ok with that? As an attendee, I would check the box, while rolling my eyes. As an *organizer*, I think such a box would be pointless and counterproductive, because first, it doesn't map to anyone's stated true preferences (most people are omnivores; I have never heard anyone complain that there was insufficient meat available at conferences), and second, the actual preferences that this is a substitute for - an omnivorous diet - are the common case. So making people tick a box to say they don't want to be vegan for the week is exactly analogous to making people tick a box to say they don't mind being filmed during the conference. And people in this thread should be ashamed of themselves for politicizing the logistical challenges of the conference organizers. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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