Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 13:59:27 07/23/00
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>> I suppose, the next step from >> the hypersensitive self-esteem protectors here will be to >> demand abandoning tournament score keeping for amateur >> programs to protect the self-esteem of the programmers. Then >> the love, harmony and happiness will reign on the CCC. > > I haven't seen any application of this. If one wanted to pursue such censorship, one would need to prepare the grounds first -- by elevating the self-esteem (of selected members) above the free expression of a judgment/view, reasoning and the supporting facts, thus one would advocate censoring posts which may undermine this selected self-esteem. Once everyone gets used to these priorities, the do-gooding urge which initiated them will not vanish but will inexorably keep nudging toward their utopia: the state of maximized self-esteem (deserved or otherwise) and minimized threat to it.
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