“Evil is baby killing… pogroms… serial killers… the Jonah Brothers. You know, bad shit. Evil is not restricting the choice of languages you can use when you write software for a single software platform from a single vendor. My gosh, people. Talk about skewed, first-world perceptions! This is, at worst, “annoying”, “frustrating”, or maybe even “bothersome”. It’s certainly not “evil” in any reasonable sense of the word. It’s not even immoral, unethical, illegal or fattening, no matter how much you may dislike it.”
Jeff LaMarche shares one of my own pet peeves.
To condense Jeff’s longer post, in my own words: when someone does something which is detrimental to others, it’s not evil. Evil is skinning babies, conspiring towards genocide, that sort of thing. Causing some aggravation to someone else with actions which reward others is called life.
In short: you don’t like it? Okay. Say so. Maybe things will change. Maybe vote with your wallet or your feet.
Don’t call it evil. Don’t act like it’s the Worst Thing Ever.
Get over yourself. Voice your complaints, like other reasonable people, and trust that things will resolve themselves either in the way that you desire, or not.
It’s not the end of the world.
