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> I tend not to care about the opinions of people who lack critical thinking skills. Some of those people might be HR people, divorce judges, immigration offic

• kelnos 12y ago
  I do agree that we often can't control the fact that a certain person might be in a position to greatly affect our destiny. And the idea that that person may, as I put it, lack critical thinking skills in a way that really hurts us. I hesitate to say "that's the price of social progress", because it's very easy to do so when you're not in that situation, but... to some extent I think it is. If you're that worried that your presence on something like the internet could be of great future detriment to your life, then it behooves you to be a lurker, leaving as little trace as you can, and to carefully consider what traces you do decide to leave. And I guess part of the point I'm trying to make is that these people exist regardless. Maybe you smoked pot all the time in college. In 1970 there wouldn't be an online record of that. In 2014 a careless friend might post a picture of you smoking up. Our hypothetical person who wouldn't hire someone who ever used marijuana still exists regardless of whether or not he knows that you've smoked. 45 years ago you got lucky and there was no way for him to know. Nowadays you either don't engage in behaviors that you think might be objectionable to other people, or you just say screw it, and accept that there may be consequences.