On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm sorry, Thomas, but until people learn to use jurisprudential concepts such as "moral rights" properly, I have a moral obligation to point out where they are used mistakenly.
You have a moral obligation? I thought you dismissed morality as a religious belief for which there is no evidence in the physical world.
Or is it merely the concept that we ought to give credit to authors that you deem to be religious in nature?
This discussion has descended far below the threshold of usefulness now. If there's nothing else to talk about besides thinly-veiled ad hominems and "I know more philosophy then you" mental masturbation, could this discussion please go off-list?
Hear, hear. I'm glad that I can respond to Andrew's post here, because if I had been replying to either Thomas, Anthony or Mike the following would have seemed to be directed at someone specifically, which it is not:
Please Stop It.
This thread used to be on the "Re-licensing" issue, which is an issue many people are interested it. Thus, you can't even bring up the usual "Well, it's off-topic, but everyone can filter it out of their inbox by a subject-filter" counter-argument, because many people actually *do* care about the Re-licensing and do not intend at all to filter it out of their inbox. What has happened, though, is that the thread has first been hijacked by a discussion about "moral rights" and other legal and philosophical concepts (which I myself found at least interesting, if completely off-topic) and now, it has gone down to a rather pathetic "I have studied philosophy, you have no clue." "I don't need to have studied philosophy to have a clue." "I have studied Mathematics and you are a bad philosopher" type of chat, which is an absolute no-go.
Really, take it offlist. I hope I don't need to enforce this plea because I'm not actually in the mood to do so.
Michael