Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > I have said before that I think using "dgit push" (where possible) is > an ethical imperative. (I should clarify that I *don't* mean that > people who aren't using "dgit push" yet are bad people. Life is so > full of ethical imperatives that no real human could meet them all, > and of course Debian's right to call on volunteer effort is limited.)
Perhaps “ethical imperative” isn't what you mean, then? I understand an ethical imperative to be instruction demanded ethically (e.g. “don't trade people as property”). If one fails to dobey an ethical imperative, one *is* necessarily a bad person. Certainly I hope you don't consider that anyone who chooses not to use ‘dgit’ is thereby an ethical villain; and so I hope you'll avoid the term “ethical imperative” for your instruction there. Your meaning seems better expressed by an “ethical virtue”; some instruction (e.g. “donate time at a homeless shelter”) which when a person follows it makes that person praiseworthy, but which we do not condemn every person who fails to follow it. -- \ “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O | `\ Lord, make my enemies ridiculous!’ And God granted it.” | _o__) —Voltaire | Ben Finney