Sep
19
Self-Censorship is Just Too Annoying
Filed Under Marcia Personal | Comments Off
First off, being a member of a Christian webmasters group and also webmaster of my own local congregation, both of which serve as reminders of my own core value structure and also as bolsters to my own already_idiotic conscience, means that I can’t express certain things that are on my mind, or that they can’t be expressed in the ways I’d normally express them, without offending some of the people with whom I’m associated and who I happen to care about.
Second, there are people I’m acquainted with online who I either dislike intensely “as a person” and not without good reason, and certain sites I believe are an offense to humanity in general in some cases, and in others, are an offense to a person who values either the dignity of the human soul or the integrity of personal expression by individuals.
The first scenario is a valid one. Technically, there are some things I should not say if I am who I believe I am and if I believe in what I claim to believe in. Good enough. The second scenario is not quite as valid. There are just some people who are hypocritical sonsabitches, egotistical, self-centered b*stards of the worst kind, and there’s no other words to describe them. There are also sites out there that misinform, misrepresent and manipulate, also for personal ends without conscience.
So what’s a person to do? Tact and “appropriate behavior” say one thing, while standards of personal honesty and integrity say something else entirely. Somewhere there has to be a line drawn between being intelligently politically correct and dysfuctional, neurotic people_pleasing behavior.
Really, self-censorship is a bummer. And this is exactly the kind of issue that divides the dysfunctional portion of the population from the rest. Some know and some just don’t.