Beyond nice: when does virtue work?
Oct. 31st, 2008 06:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nancylebovI just saw someone say that he'd said that Obama needed to fight fire with fire, and now he realizes that the high road was better.
And I just posted this video, which has quite a bit about how to get a good open source group by protecting where the group's attention goes. This includes avoiding fights while not avoiding useful feedback.
So, I'm wondering what virtues are needed in addition to distaste for conflict. I note that "ignore them and they'll go away" is frequently just not good enough, as was shown by Kerry and the Swift Boat problem.
So, does it take courage? Intelligence? Specific knowledge about how to deal with people? Something else?
And I just posted this video, which has quite a bit about how to get a good open source group by protecting where the group's attention goes. This includes avoiding fights while not avoiding useful feedback.
So, I'm wondering what virtues are needed in addition to distaste for conflict. I note that "ignore them and they'll go away" is frequently just not good enough, as was shown by Kerry and the Swift Boat problem.
So, does it take courage? Intelligence? Specific knowledge about how to deal with people? Something else?
