December 19 2009, 22:57:06 #813 [0 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
Does anonymity encourage the best or the base in those who post?
Replies: 11
December 19 2009, 23:01:46 #815 [0 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
The basest of the base. Actually, I honestly think it encourages the reality. What a person says anonymously really tells you a whole lot about them. Now if only you knew who they were... *evil cackle*
December 20 2009, 01:55:14 #818 [1 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
not base, base is amoral or cruel, rape is base, this is a moral question not an honesty question. so it depends on community, here I think it encourages the best insofar as it remains honest to that persons opinions, 4chan would be very base.
and as 815 said, it does say a whole lot about the poster.
December 20 2009, 13:26:33 #830 [0 Agree] [-1 S] [0 T]
@818 Did you mean "immoral?" The term "amoral" denotes a lack of morality, i.e. an action that is inherently neither good nor evil. Like a handgun. All handguns are amoral.
To be "immoral" is to act outside the standards of right and good conduct. If I shoot you with my handgun because you fail to use proper grammar on an open forum, I've acted immorally (however well I may justify it to myself).
I believe you meant to say, to be "...base is immoral or cruel," and thus, "rape is base."
But if you truly feel rape is amoral, I'll shoot you and be justified in doing so.
December 20 2009, 13:32:53 #831 [0 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
lol ok ya you're right that was what I meant... sorry for the error, its kinda like effect or affect, I wasn't aware there was a different way of writing it, and there fore differing meanings until this kind of thing happened. :p
December 20 2009, 21:40:29 #847 [2 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." -Oscar Wilde
December 21 2009, 19:37:53 #868 [2 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
So then anonymous community is good/bad depending on how you view humanity. If 4chan is representative of anybody's true self, we're screwed.
December 22 2009, 18:30:36 #897 [2 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
Oh, yeah, we're totally fucked. People are stupid and selfish.