On: Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassm...

[ugh]

I don’t want to live in a society where unnecessary perilous violence is the norm.

Is that a good enough reason for you?

[godDLL → ugh]

> I don’t want to live in a society where unnecessary perilous violence is the norm.

I don't think that's going to change any time soon. Unless they legalize it, that is.

[anigbrowl → ugh]

Neither do the recipients of his harassment, I imagine. Let's not put the cart in front of the horse, here.

[tekromancr → ugh]

I don't think he was advocating /actual/ violence.

[ugh → tekromancr]

While better than actual violence I also don’t want to live in a society where threats of violence are common. That seems like an irrational and barbaric way of solving problems.

Violence is a tiny bit too serious for to just discount the threat of it as a nice rhetorical flourish.

[piccadilly → ugh]

Well, a measured quantity of violence ('violence' being a very broad category) targeted at someone who is clearly causing harm is sometimes the only effective way of stopping a greater amount of harm. No-violence is clearly better, but assuming that (say) a rape is being committed, some degree of violence is a reasonable response to stop things from happening or deter other things.

[DannoHung → ugh]

So why do you support his right to make threats to undeserving people? Isn't the threat of violence injurious?

[tptacek → DannoHung]

This is a stupid debate and it should stop here. Nobody is beating anyone, no matter what the Internet tough guys say.

[ugh → tptacek]

You are right. Casual threats of violence get me about as riled up as casual sexism so this was both a perfect storm and an overreaction on my part. I should have silently grumbled and ignored it.