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United Federation of Instances was recently discussed on a russian podcast. I cant understand it myself but someone told me about it.
The UFoI is really taking off, and its been what, 2 or 3 days now! This is very exciting.
On the one hand, I am very encouraged that a group of instance administrators who aren't cultivating, as a German politician would put it, "mimosenhaftes Beledigtsein"
[mimosa-like hypersensitivity], are finding a collective voice and speaking up.
On the other hand,
I see a lot of energy for this initiative originating from a strong feeling of unfair censorship based on arbitrary and capricious rules
(it's a strong motivation to get involved here for #metoo),
but I see a tendency to try and define yet another set of rules, with the tendency to go too much into detail.
A translation of the Starfleet Prime Directive into a Categorical Imperative would be:
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time prevent that your will, or anyone else's will, should become a universal law of the United Federation of Instances."
The big difference for me is I am not thinking of this as some universal truth or law... im thinking about it more in terms of "What are the principles vast majority of reasonable people will agree to.. Something that an overwhelming majority will all hear and go "Yea that seems reasonable to federate with".
Morality should play a roll in that, of course. But I do feel we can find something that is both moral and satisfies the majority of instances.
@freemo @ufoi
Problem:
The most creative (and therefore interesting) contributors have ideas that are considered unreasonable by the Moral Majority, however you define what a Moral Majority actually is.
I'd be interested in a federation of instances that promote the principle that no reader is entitled to protection from feeling righteously offended by others' contributions.
Then again, there _are_ lots of nutcases out there, and there _are_ lots of folks who just want to provoke others and _haven't_ read
Practice of parrhesia: Discourse & Truth, Problematization of Parrhesia - Six lectures given by Michel Foucault at the University of California at Berkeley, Oct-Nov. 1983
in particular:
https://foucault.info/parrhesia/foucault.DT4.praticeParrhesia.en/
»The main types of parrhesiastic practice utilized by the Cynics were:
(1) critical preaching;
(2) scandalous behavior; and
(3) what I shall call the “provocative dialogue.”«
A variant of Murphy's Law applies:
Any set of rules that can get triggered bring down the ban hammer on the innocent or mere bystanders, will.
See the example of Snow the Nazi, who knows this quite well.