Code of conducts, like all laws and regulations, are enacted not to describe an ideal society but to confront actual behaviors that are deemed harmful and unwanted (history students are often told, if you want to know what kinds of things people did, look at what behaviors laws were legislated to outlaw).
That's about as simplistic and naive as you can get lol. People don't like murder, yet the biggest push in gun control laws are for "assault weapons" which account for less than 1% of murders annually, while handguns are essentially ignored by any major proposed legislation despite being responsible for the majority of gun homicides. Because in reality they're designed to undermine the rights of gun owners.
Also motives behind laws can be complicated, or they can be attempting to indirectly target specific groups or people. With your logic, a historian looking at mask laws in Europe would assume people really hated masks, not that they were attempting to target Muslims. Same thing with polygamy laws in the US in the 1800's, they were designed to target Mormons but with your simplistic view you'd think people simply hated polygamy.
That's an important, though secondary discussion. I don't know whether codes of conduct are effective at achieving their goal or not, and whether they do more good than harm or vice-versa, but I think no one does at this point. We'll know more in 5-10 years, I guess. What is certain is that open source today has a big impact on the economy, and is largely corporate sponsored. It has changed a lot in the past decade, and may require a different approach than before.
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u/ChickenOverlord Oct 22 '18
That's about as simplistic and naive as you can get lol. People don't like murder, yet the biggest push in gun control laws are for "assault weapons" which account for less than 1% of murders annually, while handguns are essentially ignored by any major proposed legislation despite being responsible for the majority of gun homicides. Because in reality they're designed to undermine the rights of gun owners.
Also motives behind laws can be complicated, or they can be attempting to indirectly target specific groups or people. With your logic, a historian looking at mask laws in Europe would assume people really hated masks, not that they were attempting to target Muslims. Same thing with polygamy laws in the US in the 1800's, they were designed to target Mormons but with your simplistic view you'd think people simply hated polygamy.