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Re:On being a girl in computer science - a confession by LockeWatts on Saturday March 09, 2013 @11:36PM (#5350718)
First, nothing is necessarily wrong, as that would imply an absolute rather than relative morality. All morality is relativistic.

Secondly, I would argue that your list, from my point of view, denoted 'racism, sexism, etc' is more rigorously defined as 'discriminating based on anything other than merit'.

Given that assumption, discrimination by race or sex for any reason would be wrong.

With those premises, I stand by my original conclusion that discrimination on the whole is wrong.

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Re:On being a girl in computer science - a confession by hackinthebochs on Saturday March 09, 2013 @11:46PM (#5350739)
And I would have to reject those premises.
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Re:On being a girl in computer science - a confession by LockeWatts on Sunday March 10, 2013 @12:12AM (#5350814)
On what basis?
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Re:On being a girl in computer science - a confession by hackinthebochs on Sunday March 10, 2013 @12:26AM (#5350857)
>I would argue that your list, from my point of view, denoted 'racism, sexism, etc' is more rigorously defined as 'discriminating based on anything other than merit'.

My comment nextdoor describes my problem with these sorts of degenerate defintions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5350842

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