Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 10:47:05AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > People seem to feel they're unreasonably put-upon by having to think about > > what they're saying *at all*, but this is absurd. Everyone else in the > > world is doing this all the time. > > There are times when you don't have to think about what you're saying > before you say it; that situation is often called being "among friends", > or "in a safe space", or "able to let your guard down".
If you have to have your "guard up" to avoid hurting people, you have a more fundamental problem. It really *isn't* that hard to just think about the effect of your words on others *all the time*. As Russ said, that's a fundamental skill. Debian is not a locker room.
