Wednesday, December 25, 2013; 7:50:56 PM Eastern
We could douse Internet mobs
- Don't kick a man when he's down.
- If that were the rule. If kicking a person when they're down was considered as awful as the things you knock people down for, that would end it.
- Make the punishment fit the crime, and stop there. And maybe if we wanted to be fair, adopt a rule like innocent until proven guilty, or try to see it from their side, or we understand that sometimes people tweet when they're: 1. Drunk. 2. Tired. 3. Lonely. 4. Feeling unloved. 5. Or neurotic. 6. Being human.
- I once saw a pundit with hundreds of thousands of followers call a mob victim an asshole and people who I thought well of (before this) praised him as being a saint.
- As Worf might say, sir you have no honor.
- There must be a New Year's resolution in here somewhere.
- Happy Holidays!