Ah, so really, I'm not an individual when on social media, I'm part of a hive, and I have hive responsibilities. Got it. Sounds very "liberal."
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Replying to @RogueNotary @GodDoesnt
I think it's an individual responsibility too. Everyone who takes part in a dogpile is just one person but the collective weight of it can be devastating.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
So provide me some sort of principle for when I'm allowed to have a well-formed opinion based on past experience and strong circumstantial evidence and when I'm not.
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Replying to @RogueNotary @GodDoesnt
Could you not just say 'There's strong circumstantial evidence for this and much precedent in the form of other cases.'
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But maintain a personal commitment to presumption of innocence when literally no way for someone to defend themselves, outwardly anyway.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
You're urging a principle of restraint in expressing an opinion, but what's the principle for when that should be applied? There is no criminal case here.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
What are the boundaries of this principle of not expressing a rational opinion for fear of being 1/400,000th of a dogpile? Whenever prison time is at stake? A job? Shame? Hurt feelings?
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Replying to @RogueNotary @GodDoesnt
I'm not opposing expressing rational opinions.
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Tbh, I think we have to blame a large amount of the negative consequences of Twitter, on the mechanism of Twitter. It's not feasible to get its users to stop dogpiling, imo, without getting them to simply stop expressing opinions altogether, thus destroying the site.
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Yes, this is the problem. Its easy to be an unwitting part of a dogpile - not jumping on a bandwagon & knowingly stoking rage & hysteria but not knowing the bandwagon exists.
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