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Fair enough. But it seems as that is what is occurring.
If his accomplishments really are more important than him being gay, then there should be no need to mention homosexuality at all when discussing Turing.
Fair enough. But it seems as that is what is occurring.
If his accomplishments really are more important than him being gay, then there should be no need to mention homosexuality at all when discussing Turing.
Which is it?
Why is it inappropriate to talk about this man's persecution and the cutting short of his life and potenital due to the fact that he was gay?
Is it inappropriate to talk about Jesus's persecution at the hands of the Romans because of his religious faith?
It is not, but it is inappropriate when that overshadows what Turing did and accomplished.
It has the effect of making him into a caricature rather than a vibrant human being who quite possibly could be credited with saving the world.
Do you forget where you are? A discussion of his professional accomplishments would be appropriate for the Science and Technology or the History forum.
This is the forum to have a discussion about his persecution for being gay and his being pardoned 60 years later.
Do you forget where you are? A discussion of his professional accomplishments would be appropriate for the Science and Technology or the History forum.
This is the forum to have a discussion about his persecution for being gay and his being pardoned 60 years later.
Why is that controversial?
Harrier thinks that we should all be able to agree that Turing should be pardoned.
Turing also published pioneering work on early computers, writing in a 1936 paper of a "universal Turing machine". Having told people he was trying to "build a brain", his theory was the first to consider feeding programs into a machine as data, allowing a single machine to perform the functions of many - just like today's computers.
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