Any good recommendations on books, podcasts, etc critiquing moralism, specifically from a radical perspective?

#moralism #resources #books

next they'll be sacking teachers for wearing 'inappropriate' clothing.

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/teacher-at-bannerman-high-school-in-glasgow-resigns-after-sexually-explicit-images-found-on-onlyfans

#Whorephobia #SWERFS #Moralism

“The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.” — Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs.

#buddhism, #compassion, #moralism, #quote, #quotes

“The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.” — Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs.

#buddhism, #compassion, #moralism

“The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.” — Stephen Batchelor, _Buddhism Without Beliefs_.

#buddhism, #compassion, #moralism

From ethics washing to ethics bashing: a view on tech ethics from within moral philosophy

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3351095.3372860?download=true

A must-read.

#Philosophy #ethics #moral #moralism #EthicsWashing #EthicsBashing #Politics #Capitalism #market

@khird

Roadmaps are not political goals.
They talk about what is going to happen to the software, not about what we are trying to achieve through the project.

While I have to admit I'd read carefully a RELIGION.txt to understand how a software is related to religious beliefs, I don't think it's the same.

#Software impacts #society in several ways, while it doesn't impact God, usually.

However there are notable exceptions such as #TempleOS that deserve all of our respect.

Anyway, as I said you are free to ignore the political goals of a project at your own risk, just like you can ignore the license or the code they write.

For example I purposedly ignore #CoC because I refuse to adopt an #US workplace like behavior in my #free time.
If forced to read them I look for ways to ridiculize them by violating their letter without violating their rational. So usually it's better for the project leaders to NOT try to impose me their #moralism.

Yet I do this at my own risk.

@grainloom

If a free software project has any aspect you don't like, it deserve to be forked.

#hackers welcome any #fork.

Only #OpenSource people who cry of community breaks and such bullshit. After all forks reduce their #market share!

As for women, trust me: I care A LOT about them. I have three daughters I love most, and I always carefully consider what is good for them, in the present and in the future.

Is a homogenous world were all people talk the same good for them? Would it be safer?

The answer is simply No.

In Italy we have had a history of private abuses easily mixed with public #hypocrisy to cover them.

In a world were people cannot TALK about something, such thing do not disappear. It just become invisible and more dangerous. Public #moralism just raise the stakes for powerful people, but it doesn't fix any perversion.

Since I want to effectively protect my daughters, I want a world where people with the weirdest opinions can discuss them while criminal like #Epstein are rapidly and easily denounced.

Don't judge books by their cover: a project (or a man, or a woman or a company or..) might LOOK nice to a woman while being creepy and dangerous. And the converse can also be true.

I prefer places that are dangerous and look dangerous too.
They are LESS dangerous.

But censorship and mob lynching of opinion won't make things better.

@dthompson @cwebber