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On Facebook, Greg Benford said:
When I ignore requests for drinks, cupcakes, palm trees, etc. to take part Mafia Wars it’s not a statement about the folks who are enjoying such pursuits. If I accepted this invitation to play in a space fleet game (how cool is that?) I would never get anything done. It’s so easy to get distracted as a writer which is why I’m declining all these lovely invitations. Now back to work.
I responded:
You are making a good choice, but you can’t avoid the fact that your choice is also a statement about the choices that others make.
Greg often faces a choice between playing and getting work done, and he seems to usually respect more the choice to get work done. When he sees other folks choose instead to play, surely he must infer a substantial chance that they faced a similar choice but made the choice he respects less. Even if he doesn’t think this way, and even if he explicitly says this, the rest of us must assign a substantial chance that he does in fact think this way. Yes we can’t be sure, but even so, on average disagreement is disrespect.
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Honestly, disagreement is not even remotely related to disrespect. If I say the sky I prefer cats, and you say you prefer dogs, are we disrespecting each other? Clearly not. We simply have differences of opinions, which is not only natural but healthy. If your self-esteem is so fragile that you offended by a simple difference of opinion, really the only option you have is to hide under a rock for the rest of your natural life, because clearly you can't function without those around you making sure to tiptoe around your fragile feelings. That's narcissistic, and clearly antisocial. Grow up.