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What the Fark 3: The Strange and Unusual

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Slap Shot said:
Not everyone should be a full on "coder" but from what I've read coding is going to be so prevalent in such a wide array of professions - even those you might not thing would require it - that it's become essential to become at least an introductory course nearly for every student.
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I know I'm replying to a months old post, but I think of it this way:

Not everyone becomes a physicists, but you still take physics in high school. Even if people never program again, they should have a basic understanding of it by the time they graduate.
 
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A group of people have promised to do a particular thing.

There are others who don't want those people to keep their promise.

I can understand that part of it; and I can understand asking members of that group to reconsider, based on a variety of different reasons.

One reason that makes absolutely no sense at all is to ask a person to break a promise as a "matter of conscience." Don't the speakers realize that is the one reason not to offer?

W. T. F. ??
 
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FreshFish said:
One reason that makes absolutely no sense at all is to ask a person to break a promise as a "matter of conscience." Don't the speakers realize that is the one reason not to offer?
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Read Antigone.

Conscience is the breaking of one promise for a greater good. Otherwise it wouldn't be hard. Do you really, really not understand that?
 
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This is why mankind was put on this earth. As a species, we need to stand and be proud.
 
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Kepler said:
This is why mankind was put on this earth. As a species, we need to stand and be proud.
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It's either the National Mall Santas Association Christmas party, except for Murray because he came down with the whisky flu (F--- Murray!), or the debate over which pole would be represented if the theoretical monopole were ever proved.
 
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Kepler said:
Conscience is the breaking of one promise for a greater good. Otherwise it wouldn't be hard. Do you really, really not understand that?
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You cannot really be that dense....are you the right-wing version of Colbert sent here as a parody of the left?? you say break the law as a matter of conscience and somehow breaking the law and breaking a promise become the same thing all of sudden??

as I said before, which apparently missed your keen discerning eye, I do realize there are indeed plenty of reasons to argue that a person should break their promise, but you don't say "break your promise as a matter of conscience," that is just a contradiction in terms right on its face.

If you want to appeal to people based on their conscience, you need to do it right: "We realize that you promised to do something, and as a person of conscience, we respect that you will take that promise seriously. Rather than break the promise, do the responsible thing: go back to the people to whom you made that promise and tell them you are resigning your position because you can no longer follow through on keeping that promise. and if you happen to resign at the very last second, so that it is too late to name a replacement, so much the better!"
 
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Oh sweet jeebus.

Canadian women's soccer team scores the fastest goal in Olympic history, 20 seconds into the game, beating the old record of 2 hours and 45 minutes
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Omaha selected to host the 2017 U.S. Olympic curling trials. Officials say the event could pump as much as another $220 into the local economy
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ETA: the geeks is even better
Scientists discover first ever group of lesbian gorillas after following the tracks of Subarus deep into the jungle
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I own a Subaru. I am not a lesbian. Nor am I a gorilla.
 
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