Re:God's Lonely Programmer
by pfortuny on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @02:43PM
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I think you may be mixing two problems, one ideological (he is a racist), which has little to do with medicine and the other behavioural (he is "aggressive", or whatever). The latter may be a medical condition, the former I am inclined to see as a (wrong, if you let me) set of values.
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Re:God's Lonely Programmer
by EdwardDiego on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @02:50PM
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> the former I am inclined to see as a (wrong, if you let me) set of values.
Yeah because mental illness allows one to think rationally about value sets.
It is very hard to disassociate his apparent views from his mental illness. If you've followed his past posts, you'll have seen the level of coherence change dramatically over the years, and so has the level of slurs and offensive language.
So it's not at all clear to me whether or not the apparent racism is ideological in any meaningful way vs. being largely a product of his illness.