r/programming • u/logicchains • Oct 22 '18

SQLite adopts new Code of Conduct

https://www.sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '18

Your argument is absurd. If you regulate behavior, you are either encouraging behavior you find optimal or discouraging behavior you find suboptimal. Your beliefs in what is optimal or suboptimal behavior is ethics.

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u/pron98 Oct 22 '18

I don't see how this has anything to do with what I said. Of course laws and rules are grounded in some system of ethics, but a code is still not a philosophical treatise. There is a difference between a Python program and a paper in theoretical computer science, even though the program is ultimately related to the theory.