I will commit to trying to push this envelope.

Callie, a thought, just for the reflecting on:

Our social network is like a matrix in which we are the node. And the sum of the awareness of reality of that network -- the intelligence of the group -- depends, to a large degree, on how "accurate" the data it exchanges is. One of the harder lessons I have had to start learning since I tied my fate to that of a loving wife and a loving daughter, is that inserting false realities into the matrix, out of a sense of self preservation, actually undermines the ability of the others in the group to see clearly. This is unkind to strangers, and treacherous to friends.

On the other hand, you and MM have both pointed out that there is significant risk in being "too" honest, among those who would use it against you.

So we have a situation that almost forces us to be torn between risk from being honest, and another risk, more subtle but perhaps no less dangerous, from being dishonest. Hard puzzle, once you start to fiddle with it. I am not thinking of moral codes, here, as I think we have an abundance of them, but more ofthe practical ramifications of decisions in a communication matrix of living humans.

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