On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:39:17PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > With our underlying culture, I'm not sure if any attempts to change us will > truly ever succeed in making us the caring, sharing, non-confrontational > group that will make every person happy to work with us. Hell, if we become > non-confrontational, we'll probably lose some of the people who enjoy the > confrontation - so we still won't be able to claim we're all-inclusive. <g> I certainly won't tolerate it. It's fundamentally incompatible with getting any useful work done. Down that road leads political correctness (not just the word-substitution form), where you cannot say something that is true and technically significant because it might upset somebody. People cannot usefully participate in a debate unless they grow a skin, or while they are emotionally attached to an argument. Providing crutches for them will only make things worse. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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