Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
by raxxorrax on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:28PM
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What makes everything political? Of course something I do or say can influence others, but it is still not political in the vast majority of instances. Not even non-significantly.
Political action is shaping my environment to my desire. Via compromise or war perhaps. What is your definition of it that it applies to everything?
Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
by BlueTemplar on Thursday March 24, 2022 @02:01PM
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That's just action. What makes it political is if happens to have an effect outside of your home. (And technically even those restricted to the inside will usually end up having some sort of effect outside of your home.)
The trite ways to say it (ie: "we live in a society" or "actions have consequences") don't really capture the full complexity of human interaction but do somewhat describe the notion that everything you do as an individual affects and is affected by everything everyone else does. Being "political" really means just believing that those effects are too significant to ignore.