On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 19:20 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 1/9/19 5:39 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Anthony Towns wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 10:47:05AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > People seem to feel they're unreasonably put-upon by having to think about > > > > what they're saying *at all*, but this is absurd. Everyone else in the > > > > world is doing this all the time. > > > There are times when you don't have to think about what you're saying > > > before you say it; that situation is often called being "among friends", > > > or "in a safe space", or "able to let your guard down". > > If you have to have your "guard up" to avoid hurting people, you have a > > more fundamental problem. > > > > It really *isn't* that hard to just think about the effect of your words > > on others *all the time*. As Russ said, that's a fundamental skill. > > > > Debian is not a locker room. > > On the other hand, when did people get so thin skinned, and offended by > everything? [...] That would be whenever people started complaining about "political correctness" when they were criticised for what they said. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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