Take your Whuffie and shove it, WAS: So who's counting?

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 20:11:59 MST

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    --- nanowave <nanowave@shaw.ca> wrote:
    > Lee Daniel Crocker writes:
    >
    > >> (Artillo5@cs.com <Artillo5@cs.com>):
    > >> Wow Gina almost has enough for a haircut! :D
    >
    > >I hereby donate my lone ideobuck to Gina so she can cash hers in.
    >
    > Sure thing, I never said anything about IDB's being non-transferable
    > :-) But then the next Nanogirl news would have put her over the
    threshold anyhow since I archive those by default. Just the same,
    conjuring a HUD to ping her whuffie...

    While this is an interesting exercise, I generally disapprove of any
    mechanism to extort a peaceful individual to behave according to the
    wishes of others. As philosophers have said, reputation may be what
    others think they know about you, but honor is what you know about
    yourself. Which do you think is more important to personal development?

    As Meredith McMaster Bujold's character Aral Vorkosigan said, "Guard
    your honor closely, and let your reputation fall where it may."

    I would much rather have a mechanism by which I can judge my own prior
    statements than to have them judged by others. I frankly don't give a
    damn what anybody thinks of the things I say. I'd rather be true to
    myself and whuffie-less than a sell-out to the esteem of others. I
    recognise that this is reflected in my nearly exponential negative
    karma on the ExI BBS. I just don't give a damn.

    Take your whuffie and shove it, or give it to Gina. After all the crap
    she went through, that is the least she deserves. She certainly has MY esteem.

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                                         - Gen. John Stark
    "Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
    "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
    For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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