[dvanduzer]

A question I'm asking myself more often as I get older: What is the value of changing somebody's mind?

To that end, rather than prove someone else's code is complex, we can emphasize the virtues of simplicity with what we do. Refactoring someone else's code in smaller increments would be the passive aggressive middle ground.

There are more opportunities with code that hasn't been written yet. Maybe suggest watching this lecture as a group and then just discussing it without any additional agenda: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

[spacemanmatt]

Having worked a couple decades in the trade, occasionally with some very unstable people, I have seen one suicide. I doubt it had anything to do directly with work but it's been a reminder to be nice to people, even when they are wrong.