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Now that my internet is finally working again . . . (we decided to cancel cable for a while as a money-saving thing, and the people who disconnected it got the wrong line).
There's a good piece up at Shakesville about the latest lawsuit involving Girls Gone Wild, but these two paragraphs in particular struck a chord:
"So we’re left with naïve versus unethical and criminal—and, the truth is, we’ve all been inexperienced or naïve or downright foolish at one point or another. It’s part of growing up, and it’s nothing about which to be scolded. Most of us, if we’re honest, aren’t so deeply cynical that we distrust people more than we trust them even now, and that’s a completely rational decision; most people really won’t take advantage of us, even given the opportunity—most out of kindness and a general sense of decency, some with a nod to karma, some because they’re afraid to get caught. Even people whom I’ve heard swear up and down that they’re hard-core cynics and don’t trust anyone have walked away from a cashier pocketing their change without counting it. We tend to forget how trusting we actually are, so routine is that trust.
Ergo, when trustfulness meets diabolical untrustworthiness, it’s usually not much of a contest. And when you add naïveté to trust, and they butt up against exploitative immorality, it’s no contest at all. And we’d all do well to remember that."
There's a good piece up at Shakesville about the latest lawsuit involving Girls Gone Wild, but these two paragraphs in particular struck a chord:
"So we’re left with naïve versus unethical and criminal—and, the truth is, we’ve all been inexperienced or naïve or downright foolish at one point or another. It’s part of growing up, and it’s nothing about which to be scolded. Most of us, if we’re honest, aren’t so deeply cynical that we distrust people more than we trust them even now, and that’s a completely rational decision; most people really won’t take advantage of us, even given the opportunity—most out of kindness and a general sense of decency, some with a nod to karma, some because they’re afraid to get caught. Even people whom I’ve heard swear up and down that they’re hard-core cynics and don’t trust anyone have walked away from a cashier pocketing their change without counting it. We tend to forget how trusting we actually are, so routine is that trust.
Ergo, when trustfulness meets diabolical untrustworthiness, it’s usually not much of a contest. And when you add naïveté to trust, and they butt up against exploitative immorality, it’s no contest at all. And we’d all do well to remember that."
