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To: Poet who wrote (59345)	9/21/2002 10:04:33 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

So this whole "issue" is, in your opinion, about certain people's lack of judgement and not about the specific conditions of internet communities. I did not say or suggest anything about either "certain people" or "judgment." The point I have been arguing since the question of "real people" came up is that making a singular distinction between internet communities and other venues is bogus. It is difficult to know people in any venue.

To: Poet who wrote (59345)	9/21/2002 10:15:45 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

No, that wasn't her subject. "Be that as it may," makes that clear. It was that if, as X suggests, a person misjudges people, that person can do it in 3D as well as here. There are obviously cues in 3D that don't exist in written communications. Smell, facial expression, appearance, etc. The question is, to me, are there cues we get here that balance those -- or, sometimes, even outbalance them. Everyone whose physical envelope is ugly has a big disadvantage in 3D. The perceptions of their 'soul' are affected by their looks. Actually, even perceptions of their virtue and competence are affected! Those with beautiful physical envelopes have all sorts of positive assumptions made about them by their 3D audience. Beauty and ugliness are examples of situations in which the perceptions we have here are advantaged for being free of such biases. After years and years of exchanging thoughts and observations with people, arguing with them, observing their interactions with others, observing their senses of humor, we may know something we wouldn't, had we been influenced by their beauty or their ugliness. The quadriplegic I've mentioned to you is an example of a person who can't make new friends, ie can't be perceived correctly by new people in 3D ; and not because of physical limitations. He can think and talk. His only friends are those who knew him before his physical appearance was dominating, in their consciousnesses. If he came here and dictated, everyone would know much more about him in a week than those who've seen him being pushed around, limp and strange-looking, in his wheelchair, and don't meet his eyes but instead chat with his wife, will ever have.