I disagree. "Common decency" isn't innate, it relies on growing up in an environment that encourages it, and even then the rules are not obvious to everyone. Wi

I disagree. "Common decency" isn't innate, it relies on growing up in an environment that encourages it, and even then the rules are not obvious to everyone. Witness the examples in this article. Probably, those examples of misbehavior come from decent people who didn't think carefully enough about what they were saying. Such people would probably read this article and say some variant of "oh crap, I made a faux pas". The article's advice and reasoning look useful to me.