[OT] Benefit and belief

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Thu Sep 29 17:32:42 EDT 2011


MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> writes:

> On 29/09/2011 04:05, Ben Finney wrote:
> > But the topic of keeping this forum safe for technical discussion
> > entails that it must be safe for *any* idea to be the butt of a
> > joke, be it a religious text or the Zen of Python, and that is very
> > much on-topic.
>
> Even if it offends Python worshippers?
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asUyK6JWt9U

Even then. People who remain attached to ideas are being unreasonable if
they take a joke about that idea personally. No idea, certainly not any
religion, gets any special exemption.

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Ben Finney



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