<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 6:11 PM Jed Brown via petsc-dev <<a href="mailto:petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov">petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Lisandro Dalcin <<a href="mailto:dalcinl@gmail.com" target="_blank">dalcinl@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 07:08, Jed Brown via petsc-dev <<a href="mailto:petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov</a>><br>
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>> To be fair, Microsoft just doesn't have resources left over for MPI<br>
>> after all they've been putting into making sure nobody in China learns<br>
>> about Tiananmen Square.<br>
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> Be careful, Jed. Any sympathizer or member of the Communist Party my<br>
> interpret your words as a political attack. I have to remember that our CoC<br>
> classifies political attacks as unacceptable behavior:<br>
> <a href="https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/annotate/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default#CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md-27" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/annotate/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default#CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md-27</a><br>
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My comment was flippant, but it is hard to overstate the devastating<br>
consequences of framing criticism of human rights abuse as a "political<br>
attack" for which sympathy is owed to the abusers.<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div>That kind of moral absolutism is hard to sustain. It is not the color scale. Real disagreements</div><div>exist about what is proper/moral/acceptable, even for conduct that is reprehensible from one</div><div>point of view. Of course people can form a compact around some moral principles, but it should</div><div>be clear that they exist because of the compact, not Plantonically in a Moral Sphere.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>