However, this rule cannot be shown to be universally good, regardless of interpretation:
"Obey in all things the commands of those whom God has placed in authority over you, even though they (which God forbid) should act otherwise, mindful of the Lord's precept, 'Do what they say, but not what they do.'"
It’s just not logical or empirically coherent. We could deconstruct this stupidity extensively, but it would not fit within the margin of this thread.
Subordinate yourself to those with authority in all things, except things that break or undermine any of the other rules.
It's the other way around. The word god describes "that which is good" a priori and then people discovered, that he is a person and not a principle.
― Steven Weinberg
My favorite bit about this is that it was adopted because the corporations buying sqlite insisted on having a code of conduct/ethics... And it's amazing that they'll check the box with this!
Too many of us believe we are gods as we command our machines to do our will. That was me once.
52. Guard your tongue against evil and depraved speech.
53. Do not love much talking.
54. Speak no useless words or words that move to laughter.
55. Do not love much or boisterous laughter.
I would have thought its up to each project to decide on their requirements. There is no central authority that decides how to run an open source project.
Just weird to me that nobody seems to care about that one when people complain about other less political but more politicized identities fairly often
EDIT: Nevermind. Seems like this nonsense has been on their website since at least October 2018 (https://web.archive.org/web/20181024184950/https://sqlite.or...). How off putting.
I've been considering switching to H2 for a while now to avoid depending on a fat-jar full of binaries. This nonsense has persuaded me to make that switch.
And yes, it’s basically a paraphrase of the Rule of St Benedict.