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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by meowfly on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:06PM (#27582831)
> Lives are consistently destroyed and everyone just shrugs their shoulders and goes "aw-shucks."

There is such an asymmetry between how it feels to get piled on and watching someone else piled on.

If I was watching a stranger get their teeth pulled I can almost physically feel the pain. Watching someone harassed online is more like, "the internet sure can be mean" and then I move on.

My hunch here is this illustrates how our social systems aren't designed for a world the size of the internet.

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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by nathanaldensr on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:25PM (#27584728)
It's a good hunch. The intellectual among us often treat their imaginations as if the imagination is reality, thus neglecting natural--as in nature--limits and boundaries to the human condition. Not everything we can imagine is right, possible, or desirable. Twitter and social media in general are manifestations of this.
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