Two simple principles: One should research before concluding. One should think before judging.
“I don’t think he should have said that,” he says, thinking of how what we say can hurt those against whom condemnatory statements are thrown. “Too many lives have been negatively affected by the easy cast of innuendo and gossip.”
“Why not?” she asks. “There’s always truth of some kind that is obvious or hidden in any statement. That’s probably one reason that Dorsey, et al., invented Twitter. If they hadn’t, social media platforms would have invented themselves, sprung, as it were, out of a universal need to fill vacuums between people of differing ilk.”
He responds, “If there were some universal creative principle that engendered social media, it would be a realm or dimension of judgment, and those media would spring forth riding on a steed called Hypocrisy. Take this one about the President: ‘[He] is to the extent of his limited ability and narrow intelligence [the conservatives’] willing instrument for all the woe which [has] thus far been brought upon the country and for all the degradation, all the atrocity, all the desolation and ruin.’ What do you think about that statement?”
She smiles and says, “Hey, if the penthouse fits…”
He then says, “But why should a former President make such a judgment on one who followed in that illustrious Office so closely after his term? Don’t you think that broadcasting such a judgment would do little to help the country and much to harm it?”
She answers, “Look, if the truth isn’t obvious to you, I don’t know what is.”
He can’t help himself in unveiling the source, “I still don’t think Franklin Pierce should have said that publicly about Abraham Lincoln.”
“I don’t think he should have said that,” he says, thinking of how what we say can hurt those against whom condemnatory statements are thrown. “Too many lives have been negatively affected by the easy cast of innuendo and gossip.”
“Why not?” she asks. “There’s always truth of some kind that is obvious or hidden in any statement. That’s probably one reason that Dorsey, et al., invented Twitter. If they hadn’t, social media platforms would have invented themselves, sprung, as it were, out of a universal need to fill vacuums between people of differing ilk.”
He responds, “If there were some universal creative principle that engendered social media, it would be a realm or dimension of judgment, and those media would spring forth riding on a steed called Hypocrisy. Take this one about the President: ‘[He] is to the extent of his limited ability and narrow intelligence [the conservatives’] willing instrument for all the woe which [has] thus far been brought upon the country and for all the degradation, all the atrocity, all the desolation and ruin.’ What do you think about that statement?”
She smiles and says, “Hey, if the penthouse fits…”
He then says, “But why should a former President make such a judgment on one who followed in that illustrious Office so closely after his term? Don’t you think that broadcasting such a judgment would do little to help the country and much to harm it?”
She answers, “Look, if the truth isn’t obvious to you, I don’t know what is.”
He can’t help himself in unveiling the source, “I still don’t think Franklin Pierce should have said that publicly about Abraham Lincoln.”
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