Programmer Humor

35803 readers

59 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
No NSFW content.
Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

197

Welcome to the team (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Been here 5 days and I hate it already, I understand this vacancy now.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

... my point is that humans undervalue harms that are seen as less acutely, physically brutal ...

i think you've excellently summed up the reason why horrible things like a genocide are allowed happen; so long as we're not allowed to witness the atrocities in the media and we dehumanize them, we will never understand the needful visceral reaction to stop it.

So the risks are undervalued and both intentionally and unconsciously minimized. The result is most of us who’ve seen the inside are quietly horrified and that’s the end of it.

i wonder if something like the Hippocratic Oath could help; but then again the same physicians to took the oath committed atrocities & human rights violations under the eugenics programs/pushes that that the united states suffered from in the early to mid 20th century.