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4 days agoWhen you give people the ability to say and do whatever they want online, knowing that it will almost certainly never get traced back to them, you’ll find that a startling number of them are mean and selfish.
For society to work, we require the social agreement of what’s acceptable, and the social rejection of people who don’t follow it - that’s the only thing keeping people like this guy in line. When we lose the ability to determine who is breaking the agreement, it begins to fall apart, and our connection with one another follows suit.
While I believe there are more good people than bad ones in society, I also believe that a bad person can easily do enough harm to undo the actions of a dozen good people.
I’m missing several fingers on one hand, and there have been a decent amount of people who didn’t notice for weeks or even a few months, even when interacting with me multiple days a week. It certainly never took 9 months, though; the max was about half of a semester in college.