Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Jeff
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Jan 29 2022 15:33:21

 Je>  bo> To be honest, this sounds utterly awful, dystopic.  I might decide th
 Je>  bo> someone you said is awful, by my own subjective interpretation.  You 
 Je>  bo> have changed your views.  Why should I judge you based on beliefs you
 Je>  bo> longer have?  How can I tell?
 Je> 
 Je> Ask me.
 Je> 

But I won't ask.  That is the thing.  If I don't like you, I'll just find something you said, and go to your employer.  People DO this.  There are teams of activists who will do this.  

If I want to destroy you, I won't care.  

 Je> Whether one's beliefs are published in a book or presented online for the
 Je> world to read, the expectation that the thoughts and opinions contained
 Je> therein are private is misplaced.
 Je> 

Then we should never speak online.
Simply put, if everything I say to you, as part of a conversation is equivalent to me authoring a book and seeking to get it published, then this conversation has to stop now.

And I will stop talking to you, because I do not want what I say here, on a forum, to be considered equivalent to that.

Do you see the problem now? 

We need as a society to understand context.  To understand that a forum post is not a book, that a private message is not a forum post, that a comment on a BBS is not a published web-page, etc.

You are kind of proving my point.  Casual communication like this now has high stakes, which wasn't the case before.

.... You can learn many things from children... like how much patience you have

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