Ideas about how software should behave

[Rurpy]

On 11/09/2017 10:51 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
> On 09/11/17 17:41, Michael Torrie wrote:
>> On 11/09/2017 09:33 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 2:14 AM, Rurpy via Python-list 
>>> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>>> On 11/08/2017 11:29 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>>> [...] Please, Jon, accept that we were not deliberately
>>>>> trying to put you down. Steve, if you can clearly state your
>>>>> position on this (possibly worded in the form of an
>>>>> apology?), it would go a long way to clearing this up. 
>>>>> ChrisA
>>>> 
>>>> Are you the same ChrisA who wrote in this very list just a
>>>> month ago towards a poster you disagreed with:
>>>> 
>>>> "Yep. Good reasons like that you're a moron." [*]
>>> 
>>> If I said that, there's more to it than just that I disagreed
>>> with the person.
>> 
>> But how does that justify the comment? Sounds like a
>> rationalization to me. A little humility on all our parts goes a
>> long ways.  One can apologize for offense taken, even if none was
>> intended, and even if my own opinion is still strongly held.
> 
> But some people really do behave moronically on this list.  I
> generally killfile them before the urge to insult gets too strong,
> but I do see Chris's point; leaving people with the idea that
> unacceptable behaviour is acceptable is a service to no one.

"unacceptable behavior" being having an opinion different than 
Chris'?  And a response of "you're a moron" is quite acceptable 
in your opinion?  You are obviously not alone in feeling that way 
but if that is the defacto policy here then the CoC should be 
changed to reflect that.