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Re:How not to say the wrong thing (2013) on Sunday October 07, 2018 @01:39AM (#18159006)
I don't understand why you feel like it's sad or pathetic that people would need a model to follow something you deem as common sense. I'm sure there are plenty of people smarter than you or I that think everything tech related is "common sense".

The whole point of a diagram for something like this is so that the people without 'common sense' can learn things that weren't instilled into them growing up. Is it really a pathetic situation for people to be teaching the unaware?

I get what you're saying in that it should be obvious, I think so myself! That is that anybody with my education and upbringing should understand easily. But if I look at somebody who grew up in a poor household and had the shit beaten out of them everyday by their parents and dropped out of high school, I wouldn't expect them to know the optimal way to behave socially.

> Avoid headlines that make me angry, unless the news is really important. The discussion is never worthwhile, don't even bother.

> Know your prejudices and look for information that challenges them.

How do you prevent the two of these from coming into conflict?