Gabe BellWho you are is who you are
HildegardeThere is a distinction between real life and online. Psudonimously posting under a screen name is very different from making real life statements as yourself.
If you chose to be yourself online that is your choice. You can be someone else on the internet. You can choose to be an asshole on ocasion, that’s kind of the entire premise of trolling.
“Yourself” is the totality of everything you do. You don’t get to do stuff and then decide “No, that wasn’t me, it doesn’t count”. If you that you’re just deluding yourself
OgmiosToo often though, such arguments are used by others in the attempt to define a person by one specific example in ignorance of everything else that person is.
You will always be defined by others as your relationship to them, and the actions they know you take. You will always be more complex than you’re observed to be.
You have little say in how others define you.
I’m talking about personal interactions - online or in person - if that one specific example is the only interaction a person has with you then that’s the only information they have about you. If you don’t want to be classified as an asshole, don’t be an asshole.
agent_flounderHow do you define yourself? Do you throw out the anomalies, or weight them in, or something else …?