> There's a big prisoner's dilemma thing going on. If you're charitable, and the people you're discussing with are too, you can have better discussions. Priva

> There's a big prisoner's dilemma thing going on. If you're charitable, and the people you're discussing with are too, you can have better discussions. Privately, I'd very much agree. However Cardinal Richelieu's quote comes to mind when posting to the internet at large (yes, im counting HN in this): "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." And that is evermore so, with concern trolls and those in mind with being 'wronged' in some way. Because, no matter how charitable you are, there is someone who isn't and will assume the worst. And then you become the brunt of a social media campaign gone awry.