Re:What's Wrong with Tech Hiring
by WalterBright on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:41PM
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You have a brain that is capable of transcending your base animal instincts. I know I struggle with my base animal instincts and try to be a better man.
> I need to pay my bills, so if that's the best I can get then I'll have to take it.
Nothing wrong with that. But then reneging on the agreement is dishonorable. You're not starving.
> Comparing ourselves to animals and then implicitly claim that they have fucked up ethics (since they have no honor) is un-nuanced at best.
I don't fault animals for not having ethics, because they are incapable of having ethics. I don't fault children for not having behaviors that are beyond their abilities. I fault men who behave like animals, because men are capable of better.
BTW, people who work with monkeys have found, through bitter experience, that you cannot trust them. Statisticians have also determined that some apparently "altruistic" behavior in animals are statistically selfish, as in propagating their genes.
> I need to pay my bills, so if that's the best I can get then I'll have to take it.
Nothing wrong with that. But then reneging on the agreement is dishonorable. You're not starving.
> Comparing ourselves to animals and then implicitly claim that they have fucked up ethics (since they have no honor) is un-nuanced at best.
I don't fault animals for not having ethics, because they are incapable of having ethics. I don't fault children for not having behaviors that are beyond their abilities. I fault men who behave like animals, because men are capable of better.
BTW, people who work with monkeys have found, through bitter experience, that you cannot trust them. Statisticians have also determined that some apparently "altruistic" behavior in animals are statistically selfish, as in propagating their genes.