Hello! Kevin's post about the purpose of this list got me thinking about a cool project/resource that would be fun to create.
What I'm imagining is some sort of guide that helps encourage healthy and inclusive dialogue and debate as well as discussions of language and tactics in free culture. I'm envisioning something that would be more like a self-help guide, rather than a rules/governance document. It would be tailored to the free culture movement and useful for those of us in the free culture movement. Since that is a little abstract, I'll give an example of the kind of thing that would be in this guide. It might have a section on common false dichotomy that commonly comes-up in discussions about free culture (e.g., "ideological" vs "practical"). We could then give some tips on how to avoid using or creating these kinds of false dichotomies in FC discussions, and perhaps an example of how to gracefully respond to the use of such a dichotomy without being combative or derailing the conversation. Along the way, we might end-up linking to resources that explore the issues in a more general or critical manner (e.g., dialectic[1], fallacies[2], biases[3], etc). Well, I hope that is enough for people to get what I'm envisioning/thinking. I'd love to hear what others think, and most importantly if such a project is already under way or has been discussed! Cheers, Josh Footnotes: [1]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic> [2]: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies> [3]: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biases_in_judgment_and_decision_making> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
