Neil Gaiman's good at pointing out the Don't Be a Dick, um, dictum. He's naturally non-dickish, and when he was a journalist he saw dicks and non-dicks, and decided to a) be a non-dick and b) encourage others to be non-dicks. And he can do this without sounding defensive, which often happens when people defend their need for privacy because it's so maddening. And that defensiveness leads to people being less likely to give privacy, and and and...
Humans make humans neurotic. We need to get the humans away from the humans.
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Date: 2009-08-16 03:22 pm (UTC)Neil Gaiman's good at pointing out the Don't Be a Dick, um, dictum. He's naturally non-dickish, and when he was a journalist he saw dicks and non-dicks, and decided to a) be a non-dick and b) encourage others to be non-dicks. And he can do this without sounding defensive, which often happens when people defend their need for privacy because it's so maddening. And that defensiveness leads to people being less likely to give privacy, and and and...
Humans make humans neurotic. We need to get the humans away from the humans.
(Man, we're a weird race.)