Posted by April A. on April 10, 2000, at 19:42:57
In reply to Oh, And Another Thing..., posted by Mark H. on April 10, 2000, at 18:42:26
> The first thing they taught us in public administration school was this:
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> The greatest guarantor of civil rights is bureaucratic incompetence.
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> For all you paranoids, the point of this is that with literally trillions of self-revelations now available on the Internet worldwide, no one is going to "trace" anything back to anyone, because no one gives a shit about what a few crazy people say here. Next to the poor, we mentally ill are the most marginalized segment of our society. Any thought that we should worry about our honesty here is just grandiosity on our part.
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Although I don't consider myself crazy or mentally ill, I worry about being honest everywhere out of respect for myself and for truth itself which is greater than me. I don't think that's grandiose. I think personal privacy is important and I think it's important to stand up for it on principle. I don't feel " marginalized" because the National Enquirer isn't trying to trace back my posts for their cover;o) [attempt at humour]. I don't mind some poor grad student using my public posts for a paper. And I'm not offended if she doesn't treat them like revealed truth. A.
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