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by tomxor 2546 days ago
> Your disposition is needlessly antagonistic.

If you say so, but it seems necessary to counter your apparent lack of empathy for people without perfect vision. I don't feel bad at all about that.

> Moreover, regardless of what is common to every standard cable, anyone is free to put their own labels on their own cables to suit their needs.

Now you're just bending the discussion to your will.

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> If you say so, but it seems necessary to counter your apparent lack of empathy for people without perfect vision.

How is that any more helpful than me accusing you of an apparent lack of empathy for people with vision that can discern colors better than small symbols?

> Now you're just bending the discussion to your will.

Your argument was that not making all cables in a way that addresses all needs is saying "screw them all" to anyone else. But nothing has to work that way because total uniformity is not actually mandatory. It's completely reasonable to have a default that works well for most people and use something different for the people who need something different.

This is not about uniformity, you basically suggested colour blind people should learn brail rather than simply chosing a different method of differentiation... It's pretty hard not to interpret that as "screw them all". Yes you can't make everyone equal but it takes very little effort to accommodate the vast majority of issues.