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One of the best buys in personal conduct these days is front-loading just a little bit of courage — to say what you mean, to withhold judgment, to be unfairly pegged an asshole or a bigot or whatever else if it protects you from social kidnap.
Cowardice is like blackmail: whatever benefits you accrue crumble the moment you grow a spine; you don't have to be owned for long before you're owned forever.
The minimum buy-in for being a decent person and anything better than a worse-than-useless friend is the capacity to say "I'm waiting to see if this can be substantiated."
Frankly, we need to be doing much better than we're doing now, because deep fakes are about to utterly shatter an already tenuous shared reality. Winter Is F***ing Coming and we're arbitrating compensation for the sheep our dragons are eating
By the way, people can get cornered by growing an audience while saying *only* unobjectionable stuff — this is why I suggest "front-loading" courage. I think I've got a wider range than most bc I'm already known to assert speculative, controversial & politically homeless things
