From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2011-11-15T01:51:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41030] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #5625][Third Party's Issue] Remove profanity and pejoratives

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I'm going to have to side with Aaron on this one. If teachers/parents would
prevent their children from accessing a repository of knowledge simply due
to the occurrence of a few "naughty" words, then this world has bigger
issues than a few programmers taking out their frustrations in a public
manner.

I can hear the counterargument: "Do you really need to use the Ruby source
code to take a stand? Would it be so bad to just remove the words?"

To which I would reply: "Would it be so bad to just let Hitler have the
Sudetenland?"

There, now I've reverse Godwin'd it...

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Aaron Patterson
<tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:36:58AM +0900, Andrew Grimm wrote:
> > I was not aiming to protect children from the f-word. My intention was
> > to ensure that parents or teachers would be less likely to choose to
> > block children's access to Ruby source code. Do you understand the
> > difference?
>
> These words are found in public libraries too, no?
>
> --
> Aaron Patterson
> http://tenderlovemaking.com/
>

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I&#39;m going to have to side with Aaron on this one. If teachers/parents w=
ould prevent their children from accessing a repository of knowledge simply=
 due to the occurrence of a few &quot;naughty&quot; words, then this world =
has bigger issues than a few programmers taking out their frustrations in a=
 public manner.<div>
<br></div><div>I can hear the counterargument: &quot;Do you really need to =
use the Ruby source code to take a stand? Would it be so bad to just remove=
 the words?&quot;</div><div><br></div><div>To which I would reply: &quot;Wo=
uld it be so bad to just let Hitler have the Sudetenland?&quot;</div>
<div><br></div><div>There, now I&#39;ve reverse Godwin&#39;d it...<br><br><=
div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Aaron Patterson =
<span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:tenderlove@ruby-lang.org">tenderlov=
e@ruby-lang.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class=3D"im">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 0=
7:36:58AM +0900, Andrew Grimm wrote:<br>
&gt; I was not aiming to protect children from the f-word. My intention was=
<br>
&gt; to ensure that parents or teachers would be less likely to choose to<b=
r>
&gt; block children&#39;s access to Ruby source code. Do you understand the=
<br>
&gt; difference?<br>
<br>
</div>These words are found in public libraries too, no?<br>
<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888"><br>
--<br>
Aaron Patterson<br>
<a href=3D"http://tenderlovemaking.com/" target=3D"_blank">http://tenderlov=
emaking.com/</a><br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>

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