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the online state of nature

Alan Jacobs on civility online:

I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online, and I have come to believe it is primarily because we live in a society with a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues.

via Big Questions Online.

So when you put together a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility & charity, and seek to plot the trajectory the origin seems to be narcissism, no?

The destination?

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