[helixhelix]

We go extra lengths and try to formalise subjectivism but gain nothing. It's always anecdotal evidence or sensationalism that provokes such changes to be made.

In fact, why don't people for these populist changes express some arguments that aren't based on using "misrepresented" people as shields and scapegoats? In fact, using minorities to perpetuate your personal cause is misrepresenting them as weak and powerless.

All this talk about just accepting it is defeatism. You're promoting defeatism. Are you so scared to bounce back that you wish to ostrich your way out of any pressure?

Why, yes, it is too hard and unnecessary to write main instead of master, or any of the hundreds of completely arbitrary changes made with, I repeat, zero net measurable gain.

[eaton]

Let's say I'm standing in the aisle at the grocery store, and someone asks me to step aside so they can pass. It takes minor effort on my part — inconsequential but more than simply standing there — but makes things better for them. Is simply doing so a defeat? Have I been defeated? Is saying, "Yeah, I'd move a step or two to the left, no biggie" defeatism because the movement does not bring "measurable personal gain" to my life?

That feels like a sad, thin way of living life.

[helixhelix]

I can also make analogies. It's like asking a baker for carrot cake every day and when he finally makes one, you explain you were merely thinking of other people. Nobody else has asked for carrot cake but it made you feel special for a moment even though you know it wasn't interest in people's eyes.