<story><title>Sqlite: Code Of Conduct</title><url>https://sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>finnthehuman</author><text>I am surprised at how dismissive and intolerant the comments here are of this code of conduct. And I say this as an atheist that still harbors a lot of resentment against my family&amp;#x27;s religion.&lt;p&gt;Do you have so little empathy that you can&amp;#x27;t possibly image someone adopting The Rule of St. Benedict in good faith (no pun intended)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sprign</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think that the problem is adopting in bad or good faith; personally I am saddened because the CoCs are meant to be there to protect people that are usually in a weaker position and in our development communities that usually identifies with a few categories: women, LGBT+, disabled people etc.&lt;p&gt;Now if you look at it from this point of view I think that you can at least see the irony of using a religious text in this context; to be more clear, quoting their webpage:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This code of conduct has proven its mettle in thousands of diverse communities for over 1,500 years&lt;p&gt;Those &amp;quot;thousands of diverse communities&amp;quot; include the ones who were using their religion as a pretext to burn heretics&amp;#x2F;witches, torture homosexuals and in general oppress the weak and the diverse as well as the ones that today are still trying to infuse young people with their toxic shame when they are non-conforming.&lt;p&gt;This is what really grinds my gears: some people would do anything to NOT take responsibility and hide themselves behind nice words with little to no real content.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sqlite: Code Of Conduct</title><url>https://sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>finnthehuman</author><text>I am surprised at how dismissive and intolerant the comments here are of this code of conduct. And I say this as an atheist that still harbors a lot of resentment against my family&amp;#x27;s religion.&lt;p&gt;Do you have so little empathy that you can&amp;#x27;t possibly image someone adopting The Rule of St. Benedict in good faith (no pun intended)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stephenr</author><text>&amp;gt; so little empathy that you can&amp;#x27;t possibly image someone adopting The Rule of St. Benedict in good faith&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s more that the wording suggests the author pushing his own faith onto others.</text></comment>