You say stupid stuff in informal contexts online? It will be logged, and you will not be held accountable. Hell, people won't even go looking for it. You'll be tempted to sometimes... but you won't. Because it would be a serious transgression of good manners.
While people DO care about good manners in a social context, anyone out to glean any kind of advantage from holding your words against you will not care about your good manners, and will happily persecute you to get whatever it is they want.
Humans, almost by definition, are bastards. Better, I think, to deny ammunition to those who would use your words against you, than to trust in their better natures.
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You say stupid stuff in informal contexts online? It will be logged, and you will not be held accountable. Hell, people won't even go looking for it. You'll be tempted to sometimes... but you won't. Because it would be a serious transgression of good manners.
While people DO care about good manners in a social context, anyone out to glean any kind of advantage from holding your words against you will not care about your good manners, and will happily persecute you to get whatever it is they want.
Humans, almost by definition, are bastards. Better, I think, to deny ammunition to those who would use your words against you, than to trust in their better natures.