[Foundation-l] The state of Foundation-l (again) was: Recent firing?

[Michael Snow]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/11/7 William Pietri <william at scissor.com>:
>   
>> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>     
>>> Yes, I am placing the burden on other people and I've explained why:
>>> The burden is negligible for other people. It is significant for me.
>>>       
>> Well, you perceive the burden as negligible for them. Have you asked
>> them? My impression was that you imagined it would be easy for them
>> because it would be easy for you. Personally, I'd imagine otherwise,
>> based partly on how easy it would be for me, and partly on a lot of time
>> spent observing people using software.
>>     
> Ignoring emails *is* easy. Anyone that says otherwise is wrong. I do
> not subscribe to this "everyone's opinion is equally valid" nonsense -
> sometimes people are just plain wrong.
>   
This is not a matter of people's opinions being equally valid, it's a 
matter of their experiences being equally valid. Ignoring emails may be 
easy in that it does not require a lot of labor, which seems to be the 
focus of your argument. It is not necessarily easy in terms of the 
decisionmaking overhead of doing so, or the weight someone might feel 
accompanies the decision. Different people experience that differently, 
because they think, feel, and act differently. This is not something for 
us to call right or wrong, it is part of what we need to deal with in a 
society with people of diverse experiences. Otherwise we limit ourselves 
to the company of those who are exactly like us.

--Michael Snow