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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (57121)	9/6/2002 9:34:24 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

Thoughtful post! Sounded almost like a real person...<g>

To: Lane3 who wrote (57121)	9/6/2002 9:34:37 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Respond to of 82486

Yeah, too much is being made of it. I agree with you there. Yet it is interesting to see how many people want to talk about this. Aliases here are crying out, "If you cut me, do I not bleed!! Am I not real person!!!!" It really seems to be a very sensitive point. And then we have people like me saying, "Noooooooooooooooo." And then people get REALLY hyper. The real problem is not that this is so different from other venues but that people sometimes lose track of which venue they are in and behave inappropriately or in a risky manner. Now that's a keeper.

To: Lane3 who wrote (57121)	9/6/2002 10:41:15 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I am not questioning your caution. I'm just trying to point out that the need for caution isn't appreciably greater here vs. elsewhere. I would disagree with that. In 3D life there are usually some fairly easy ways to discern when people are telling whoppers. It will come out soon enough that Joe was let go by IBM. As you pointed out, the mail room guy gets identified as a mail room guy sooner or later. But on SI, unless people actually meet in 3D, there is no way to confirm that they are what they say they are. People can say they're lawyers, or professors, or ministers, or teachers, or retired government workers, but there is no way at all that we can verify that. That, IMO, is a major difference from "real" life, and a cause for greater caution. I go back to Beltane, where quite a few people who I believe were probably very dignified in their "real" lives were acting as virtual e sluts in their Beltane lives -- so much that more than one poster was really turned off by it. (Others were, OTOH, really turned ON by it!) But although I don't know any of those people in 3D, I firmly believe that almost none of them were even remotely representing their "real life" selves. (For just one example, look at the difference in the way E acted on Beltane and the persona she presents now on SI. Which is the real E?? And does anybody really believe that in real life I am sexually irrestable and that legions of women truly want to wander off into the mossy glades with me for a night of sexual passion and abandon? If so, I wish those women who believe that would come visit me!)