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> From: John Abreau [mailto:abreauj at gmail.com] > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Edward Ned Harvey > <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote: > > > [....] even if you were abolishing slavery, > > or promoting voting rights for women or african americans in the U.S. a few > > decades ago, people who are entrenched in the existing paradigm will > oppose > > your invention, and you might end up murdered if it's sufficiently important > > or whatever. > > > I didn't realize that my preference for focus-follows-mouse puts me on the > same moral plane as slave-owners and mysogynists. How could I be such > a heartless, evil monster? O woe is me! Cue the lynch mobs! Fire up the > electric chair! Kill me now! :-P hehehe, cute. ;-) In case you missed it, the message between the lines was: If people can't agree what's good or bad on the big things, they certainly can't agree on the little things. My message was to say, a previously expressed opinion about not changing paradigms until the new paradigm is shown to be clearly better, represents an unrealistically simplistic view of what's good and bad. It is my opinion, that millions of Germans in the '30's and '40's did what they did because they believed it was right somehow, and it's only due to our vast separation and different perspective that we believe otherwise. Nevermind reaching consensus on the small stuff, like GUI changes in some free software. ;-) People everywhere are always going to do what they want to do, and they're going to do it within their own localized sphere of influence, using their own judgement, whatever that may be. Of course the perspective is recursive - As much as I or anyone else could tell other people "stop complaining about that," ... I would only be representing the people complaining about the people who are complaining about something else... ;-)
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