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Re: On harassment at IETF

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sat, 30 March 2019 20:41 UTC

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On Mar 30, 2019, at 15:57, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> if there are calls for mob
> justice, that might be a sign that the offical, establish channels
> have failed in some way. 

Or they may simply be indications that people like to get excited if they think they are morally “in the right”.

A surprisingly large percentage of the problems on earth are caused by people that think they are “in the right”, then think that being angry for a good reason justifies abandoning all thinking about the consequences of one’s actions — they are “in the right” after all?

I wish this anti-pattern of human behavior were taught in school.

Grüße, Carsten

(I like the rest of Ted’s post; I’m just reacting to the first sentence, which may be supported by the anecdote given, but often is not — it is important to see both sides of this coin.)

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