On 25 Oct 2018, at 12:16am, Philip Warner <p...@rhyme.com.au> wrote: > t leads to the question: have you ever seen one that works better than, say, > "Don't be an arsehole/dick/evil"? In most jurisdictions sexual harassment, > murder etc are already illegal...so repeating them in a CoE/C seems redundant.
The question should be answered. It took this list around two weeks to half -- the boring half -- of the Bill and Ted standard of conduct. I am disappointed. Bill and Ted's masterful code of conduct consisted of two interlaced parts: A) Be excellent to each other. B) Party on, dudes ! Part (A) can be "Don't be evil" or "Don't be an asshole." or "Do unto others as you would have them do to you.". I'll take them all as equivalents. But (B) is essential, and it has been left out. Without (B) there is no reason to seek out beauty or fun, or to (rendering unto others …) encourage others to do so. Without (B) you can live a formal, sterile, joyless life and call it worthwhile. I am disappointed. We might as well all be replaced by robots. The second exhortation tells us that that's not enough, and we also have a duty to maximise pleasure. Find the fun. If you can't find fun, make some. And trying to do (B) without violating (A) helps keep life interesting. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
