Re: [libreplanet-discuss] New GNU

[Dave Crossland]

On 9 May 2012 12:40, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>    Action comes first, then blah blah about values, and changing the blah
>    blah IS important - but talk of values is a shadow of the primary
>    thing, the changed behavior.
>
> People's behavior comes out of their values, and the values are
> broader since they apply to many areas.  For instance, if you value
> freedom, that will manifest itself in many different kinds of
> behavior.
>
> Thus, the more important goal is to encourage people to value freedom,
> not just one kind of behavior or another.

Right, but to get them to value freedom in abstract, they need to know
many concrete examples of behaviors that result from that freedom.