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Although, religious aspects aside, there are many valuable tenets to be found in there, which will be directly opposed by those who want to get angry about it.
My email based workflow and toolchain has been plaintext only for years and I think I've been better off for it. The recent efail vulnerability just made me shrug. Plain text mail is all around more reliable, more accessible, less obfuscated, more to the point by the nature of the medium, easier to implement [...].
Jokes aside, I do like to help people out but won't go out of my way to seek opportunities to do so.
1 False, there is no persistence in the absence of power
2 False, the hidden/unknown has no transformative effect unless it is revealed
3 Missing information, what are 'irrational facts'?
4 Highly debatable, situational
5 False, creativity is not bound to either health or tolerance but modified through their experience.
6 Flowery way to say we like to shift perspective unto flaws that are not our own? We certainly have a track record when it comes to this behavior. Still not universally true.
7 You cannot be forced to learn. Context dependent.
8 Universal observations? Movement as in 'through life' (experience)? Our observations are contextualized by past experiences. Unsure about this sentence.
9 The person who has never tried anything literally died in the womb.
10 Missing context.
11 Being in pain is painful, 'imagined pain' makes no sense.
12 What, missing context.
13 What is 'the inherent experience of the universe'? Can the unexplainable touch anything?
14 Correct, being temped can be interpreted to be done unto you, not falling for temptation is the act of resisting it. There is *a difference*.
edit: typosCensorship can, under the right circumstances, be effective but requires either a very delicate hand and be more or less invisible or oppressing the opposition until it exhausted itself one way or another. Sometimes it seems to work out only to end up reinforcing believes, leading to a deeper internalization and radicalization.
Education requires focused, continued, honest effort. It requires rolling that damn boulder up the hill until the hill itself starts to erode under your feet. It's a excruciatingly slow process. And it's so easy to forget that it needs to be a dialog no matter how much you think you're right.
I'm a strong advocate for the latter, but it's easy to see why so many gravitate to the former.
So, unless a considerable part of the userbase is "throwing a tantrum", this will be yet another thing I have to remember to turn off on fresh installs.
Not fighting this kind of erosion tooth and nail at every step endangers the only viable, fully featured, alternative to the Googles browser. Yes, Mozilla needs to be held to a higher standard, the alternative is the inversion of what it stands for.
I have honestly no idea how one can look at this and go yeah, that seems like its in tune with our values.