And even worse than this, is that I see people go on to accuse the writer of the second story as being an apologist for the events in the first, and making them out to be even worse than the perpetrators of the first story. Essentially, whoever is the first to bring "bad things" to light, must be immediately trusted and considered completely truthful and no criticism is possible. Whoever "cancels" somebody first automatically wins. There is no chance for defence, counter-argument, or questioning the "evidence"/here-say. If you get in first with breaking a story, event, past mis-deed, then you win.
If you accused of crime and go to court, you will be guilty in the eyes of your neighbours no matter how baseless the court case was, no matter that someone else had confessed to that crime. That's the sad reality.
"That's the sad reality."
That's debatable, or incredible cynic imo. But even if so, losing your job is not comparable to losing reputation.
Re:Addiction to Outrage (2020)
by koheripbal on Monday March 29, 2021 @09:30AM
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There's an unfortunate problem with the volume of internet voices.
Those with the most amount of free time, and the largest amount of outrage, have the loudest voices.
It creates an unhealthy amplification of irrationality and emotional response.
Re:Addiction to Outrage (2020)
by JMTQp8lwXL on Sunday March 28, 2021 @05:56PM
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Most people never see the second article amending the first.
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." -- Mark Twain
Ironically (perhaps deliberately?) your quote may be misattributed:
Re:Addiction to Outrage (2020)
by winter_blue on Sunday March 28, 2021 @04:51PM
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Which book or writing of C.S. Lewis is this from?
(Amazing quote by the way! Thank you for sharing.)
Mere Christianity I believe.
Re:Addiction to Outrage (2020)
by undefined1 on Sunday March 28, 2021 @04:47PM
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“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
Friedrich W. Nietzsche
Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible?
If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.
-- C.S. Lewis