I've been thinking a lot about the Jimmy Wales 'incident' o…

This isn't to say that I was wrong (in fact, I 100% stand behind my words,) but that despite being right, it wasn't effective to respond.

And this judgment passes to others as well, with the acknowledgment that I'm just as human as everyone else here.

The thing is, I do believe there are times to call out and even directly undermine people whose ideology is flawed, to put it lightly, and I regularly do so.

But maybe it's something I do too often.

I recall when I was invited into a chat group and I identified an individual whose underlying ideals were contrary to those presented by that group as a whole, and I confronted them such that they brought out those contrary values...

I was deliberately harsh with this individual because I could see that their underlying ideology was a problem for the group.

Eventually, the group leader(s) kicked the other guy out of the group, but the conversation after included a rebuke against me.

The subject of the rebuke was that I shouldn't have been deliberately harsh. There are other ways, including the longer, slower process of changing that individual's mind. Educating them. Etc.

What was the "right" course of action?

I am not certain.

Maybe there isn't a "right" course of action.

But I don't believe it is dependent on the circumstances of who is on the other end of my actions. That sort of utilitarian approach doesn't jive with what I've learned of the world.

Anyways - this is just a thread in which I am recognizing that these are difficult issues, and humility must always play a role in my actions if I am to be what I consider to be a good person. I don't believe I was as humble as I ought to have been.

Now I'm hoping they video tape the roast if there is one. It should be "educational".

I hope this thread is helpful to you in thinking through this or any other issue you're faced with.

Sometimes, seeing that others aren't certain can give you the permission you needed to recognize that you, too, don't really know either.

Please see the rest of my thread from the OP.

This self reflection was important. I think that the mess was handled poorly by many from Coingeek marketing to Wales to the peanut gallery. I think that engaging in hostile negativity is almost always a losing hand even when you are completely correct.

I will say, when I initially jumped in, it wasn't what it turned into. But, if I thought about it a bit more than I did, I would have probably seen where it was going to go. I still consider that to be on me.

Get off Twitter.

Soon. Not yet.