Landmines are indiscriminate and inhumane. Microsoft renamed Minesweeper to “Flower Field” in some versions of Windows for Italy[1], Germany[1], South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
To remove offense to minefield victims, Sergio Chiodo ran an international campaign to rename it in 1999. Italy used to be one of the world’s largest manufacturers of landmines.
Gino Strada[2], an Italian war surgeon, detailed the removal of shrapnal embossed with the words “Made in Italy”. His diary Green Parrots ( ISBN 8881584204 ) caused such an uproar back home in Italy that his diary was instrumental in getting Italy to ban landline production.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
As similar reasoning applies, I would be in favour of a similar PR that introduces a new exercise Flower Field and deprecates the old one (Minesweeper), in order to maintain integrity of mentoring sessions, commentary, links to solutions, and so forth, which all may refer to mines instead of flowers.
If there are two more maintainers who agree with this (and there are no big objections), feel free to PR it and tag those maintainers (including myself) for review for swift approval.
It is easy to agree on a name that is already used in Italy, I would think, as the Windows game is well known, internationally, even if it is known as a different name.
We can also give a link to bring awareness of the offending thing, lest it be forgotten, the Surgeon’s experience and want to make such things being laid a crime.
I also very much support making the world a less militarised one. And I don’t care for the new name. @habere-et-dispertire Thanks for your suggestions!
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