*wry* I hear you on that one. Even when you sprinkle "personal opinion" and "private individual" all though a post, some people just can't deal with any gray shade between word/amen/etc. and 'you worthless idiot with no right to live'. Then, too, private versus public is a very strange thing on LJ.
*thoughtful* Though it might actually be one of the core issues in this whole ball of yarn. I do think there's merit in the idea that private behavior should have different standards for courtesy and... well, advisability, than public behavior. So I'm not in complete disagreement with the notion of keeping one's snarking private, nor do I think that automatically equates to backstabbing dishonesty. But when one never knows just how many people read a public personal journal, or who might be browsing their friends-friends list and find it, or who might have been unwisely included in, say, a private rant filter... then the question of what is private becomes pretty darn pointed.
*makes face* What I'd reall love to see is everyone exercising a little more basic judgement. As opposed to judgementalism. I expect I'm doomed to disappointment, but every sane, reasonable conversation makes me hope again. So thank you. ^_-
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*thoughtful* Though it might actually be one of the core issues in this whole ball of yarn. I do think there's merit in the idea that private behavior should have different standards for courtesy and... well, advisability, than public behavior. So I'm not in complete disagreement with the notion of keeping one's snarking private, nor do I think that automatically equates to backstabbing dishonesty. But when one never knows just how many people read a public personal journal, or who might be browsing their friends-friends list and find it, or who might have been unwisely included in, say, a private rant filter... then the question of what is private becomes pretty darn pointed.
*makes face* What I'd reall love to see is everyone exercising a little more basic judgement. As opposed to judgementalism. I expect I'm doomed to disappointment, but every sane, reasonable conversation makes me hope again. So thank you. ^_-
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