Re:Kevinism
by moomin on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @05:52AM
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What is even more entertaining is that when they do know people from the other group, they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid.
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Re:Kevinism
by mieseratte on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @10:27AM
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> they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid.
That doesn't stop with the -ism's, I routinely run into programmers learning about DRY and cargo-culting the hell out of it. People seize onto absolute rules and superficiality, failing to consider deeper conceptual dissimilarities that would negate the application of the rule.
"no, that's different. [name] is my friend!"
"The Exception That Proves The Rule":
Yes, you can interpret it so it makes sense.
No, that sensible interpretation isn't the one that caught on.
It has a nasty symbiotic relationship with the "But you're one of the good ones" phenomenon, which is what you're more directly referring to.