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@mythopoetica

Some very fascinating bits of thought on what I guess you'd call "writing ethics" here. Maybe not a new thing, but a new angle to me, or at least one I don't generally articulate in such clear terms. So, thanks. :)

One so often thinks of the need for freedom of speech, and NOT telling people they shouldn't write, but ethics is (in my own preferred formulation, at least) not about what you can or can't do, which is more an issue of law anyway, but about voluntary self-restraint among things you can do.

You raise some interesting criteria that people might reasonably want to ponder even before a would-be editor gets in there, though I suppose there are sometimes ways to work around these worries. For example, doing research and getting qualified readers can help.

And your remarks were descriptive, not prescriptive, but in my mind it's hard not to ask if I should borrow any. But then as I do, some counterpoint comes to mind. Apologies in advance that you probably didn't intend your remarks as hard and fast rules, or maybe even as complete descriptions of your own internal process. That's OK. This is more intended as an exercise in free-association than as any critique.

There are many stories in my own nerdy computer community that fir a long time I did not teíll because they seemed to belong to others and I figiured others should tell them. But not everyone, it turns out, is a writer. Or not everyone has the time. Or whatever. But important stories end up not told. Eventually I started to write some such tales, and people seem to like them. Maybe I should've written more before they were forgotten. So, I guess my point is that writers sometimes develop symbioses with individuals or groups that are less prone to write. That seems ethical to me 8iííieven in spite of the very legit risks/concerns you raise.

Another aspect of being a programmer is that jobs pay more than some other jobs. (I worry a lot about whether that's socially fair, as I'm not sure I work harder or am more needed than others in society, but let's leave that aside for now. It's a truth.) So when once, a while back, I fell into huge debt I saw a side of society that sucks people into indentured servitude, like a black hole with gravity so strong people never escape -- nor does information about them and their plight. I was able to climb out because programmer salaries sometimes let you do that, but many never could and for no fault of their own.

Stories of debt and the need for assistance and foregiveness are in some sense not mine to tell. But the people who need to tell these stories are too demoralized or too busy or just not good writers. AND there is some segment of our society who too easily indulges narratives scientifically designed to be dismissive, about how such people are leaches, whiners, not hard-working, looking for handouts. These are often hard-working people of honorable motive but cannot defend themselves from within their group because the mere attempt to defend will become the tool of attack.

Even at risk of paternalism, do-gooderness, and a host of ills that can come from writing from the outside, there is sometimes serious value that comes from out-of-group writing, for example writing by those immune to the MANY dismissiveness tactics our society uses to perpetuate injustice. Some of my writing on social justice tries to be a voice for those unable to easily be voices for themselves.

It's a tricky matter knowing when it's OK to speak for others.

Oh, and it's a slight tangent but to the extent free speech is implicated, I have a writing I did where I deconstructed that right, suggesting as an underlying right The Freedom to Hear. You or others might find it interesting.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2009/05/freedom-to-hear.html

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