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mrrowf! <more failed attempts at barking>

this exactly.

meow meow?

fair enough. My personal opinion might be that it's evil, but perhaps that's because I expected some kind of order.

the car is already purchased. the debt is to the bank. not making payments is irrelevant.

It's you, not them.

well.. >.>

My Stockholm buddy never pays attention to me anymore..

they do have a right to their beliefs. ..and we have a right to treat them with equivalent respect to how they would treat us. How you treat others is implicit consent to be treated the same way by them, or by those they trust.

Moreover, we have a right to protect those who seek protection, if we deem that worthwhile, and the protectee does as well.

but they all have a right to think how they do- and attempting to eliminate that thought from the collective mind is both a: fighting from a weak position, and b: even if you manage to eradicate the kinds of thought that you seek to eradicate, you simply leave yourself and those of the next generation susceptible to it.

Instead, you need to incorporate it. ..Like one would with anger. It's not wise to follow anger (and many emotions) directly. But they do indicate a problem that you may need to address. But if you simply try to stamp it out because "anger bad", you'll end up an absolute wreck spreading anger with everything you do.

..except to those who only use it as a tool to recognize when something's wrong.

I think you will be rehabilitated, in time, because you want to control how people think. ..and people who think doing so is a solution are, themselves, a danger to society, and they are susceptible to control by bad actors. Fortunately, they're generally also a self-limiting problem.

Consensus reality can only be agreed upon in segments where there is an overlapping sensorium - so, those forming the consensus can only possibly agree about the segments of reality in which their sensorium overlaps.

But, in effect, the accepted consensus reality requires and is based on a least common denominator of sensory capability - our most physical and repeatable senses and experiences. This precludes the evolutionary process and non-repeatable phenomena, and embeds people in a mentality where certain kinds of growth aren't even possible to intentionally engage in.

Use a three-dimensional tool, get three-dimensional results - and the kind of certainty the analytical mind seeks is definitively a three-dimensional tool.

Fortunately, the only time that truly matters is when we wish to change others minds - and they have a right not to change. Ultimately, there is a (very reasonable) unconscious sense in some people that they live on the brink of a wild, unimaginable chaos, and they're not wrong. For as long as they can, they'll avoid that through excessively-ordered thought and cultural systems (like science is used as, even though fundamentally, the scientific method is valid).

Anyways.. ..do as thou wilt (and live the result) is the whole of the law.

nah, it's more fun this way.

The alignment of the language and the alignment of the coder must be similar on at least one metric, or the coder suffers a penalty to develop for each degree of difference from the language's alignment. This is penalty stacks for each phase of the project.

So, let's say that the developer is a lawful good Rust ~~zealot~~ Paladin, but she's developing in Python, a language she's moderately familiar with. Since Python is neutral/good, she suffers a -1 penalty for the first phase, -2 for the second, -3 for the third, etc. This is because Rust (the Paladin's native language) is lawful, and Python is neutral (one degree of difference from lawful), so she operates at a slight disadvantage. However, they are both "good", so there's no further penalty.

The same penalty would occur if using C, which is lawful neutral - but the axis of order and chaos matches, and there is one degree of difference on the axis of good and evil.

However, if that same developer were to code in Javascript (chaotic neutral), it would be at a -3 (-6, -9...) disadvantage, due to 2 and 1 degree of difference in alignment, respectively.

Malbolge (chaotic evil), however, would be a -4 (-8, -12) plus an inherent -2 for poor toolchain availability.

..hope this helps. have fun out there!