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Empathy in Communities, Exploited by Malicious, Greedy, Selfish Corporations
So today The Sick Bird was hiding in one of the pots, then behind the bins, and various other places. As soon as the door opens she quietly walks towards us, asking for seeds without showing any signs of fear. Her fur (feathers rather) suggests she has thermal problems and health issues, maybe due to old age or the soaking rain taking away all the protective oil. Empathy and sympathy keep her fed by us every day, she always shows up late (after all the other birds already left).
There's a metaphor here: The Free Software community (or FSM, with M for Movement).
In a healthy community, people look after the weak. They moreover prioritise the weak, always. In fake (or bad) communities, sociopaths prey on or attack or bully or demonise the weak. They typically pick on the best or the kindest people, interpreting their kindness as a vulnerability. People with such traits cannot earn true friends and will never be able to keep a spouse even if they ever got one, somehow.
So the Free Software community or Free Software Movement ought to identify such bullies and tell them where to go. No good will come by fostering sociopaths in the name of "inclusion"; they'd just drag everybody down, eventually destroying communities while claiming - falsely - that they did their best to "save" those communities (which they actively attacked, so it is a self-fulfilling prophecy and concern trolling). █