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Things not to do if you want to be a good person:
- Complain privately to another person about vis public behavior
- Attempt to mediate between members of a group of which ve is also a member
- Defend anyone in a position of power for abusing that power
- Emotionally blackmail a group with a threatened resignation
One of my readers writes in that ve thinks that an egomaniac I may have mentioned previously would get upset about a perceived lack of proper attribution because ve views vis bit of code like vis offspring.
This causes me to immediately have flashbacks of poor parenting in public. Many times I have seen adults pay no attention to their children who are misbehaving, perhaps smearing chocolate on a stranger's dress or gnawing on a stranger's leg, and if such a victim either attempts surrogate parenting by kicking ver in the teeth or petitioning the parent to do something about ver, said parent will become very angry and indignant that anyone would impugn vis skills or dedication.
So when I see some coder not patch vis buggy code for over three years, yet still find enough time to be a sanctimonious prick and think that ve has the right to tell people how ve should be treated and how the code should be modified by others, I think there are better ways to view that metaphor.
On the other hand, I don't know any parents who neglect their kid for 3 years and then still want to actively direct childrearing, unless perhaps they're paying a governess.