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  • Several comments here provide evidence to the contrary.

    And maybe that’s the problem. The people who are assholes online don’t think about there being real, earnest people behind the other keyboards.

    Anonymity and the abstraction of interacting online can and does weaken the sense of social contract for many people, unfortunately.

    And it does count. Because what one says online can and does affect others in a real way.




  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldtotumblr@lemmy.worldWho you are is who you are
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    3 months ago

    An actor literally says the lines they say, but they are playing a character,

    Yeah and everyone knows it’s a play. With actors and an audience. Kinda different.

    Despite what Shakespeare said, online isn’t a play. Neither is RL. You can still put on a facade or a persona. But in either case it you treat people like shit, you’re an asshole.