Poll of the Day > C/D: People who are not willing to explain why are hiding something.

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I have not seen a C/D thread in years.

Judgmenl posted...

I have not seen a C/D thread in years.

I feel like I see them constantly. But I also visit other boards

What are we supposed to be confirming or denying?

U for this one

Who would get a cease and desist on here?

Axiomatically, they're hiding their explanation. That may or may not be a deliberate effort to obscure the truth. Sometimes, it may be a matter of just not wanting to bother, especially if the explanation is particularly complex and/or the person they're trying to explain it to is unlikely to accept the explanation. That wouldn't really be described as "hiding something."

adjl posted...

Axiomatically, they're hiding their explanation. That may or may not be a deliberate effort to obscure the truth. Sometimes, it may be a matter of just not wanting to bother, especially if the explanation is particularly complex and/or the person they're trying to explain it to is unlikely to accept the explanation. That wouldn't really be described as "hiding something."

There's also the fact that even if they are hiding something that doesn't mean it's something dark and terrible, it could be a surprise for said person.

not sure what the context is, but it also applies to situations where their reasoning makes absolutely no sense. that's because it's a made-up reason to hide the real reason.

adjl posted...

Sometimes, it may be a matter of just not wanting to bother, especially if the explanation is particularly complex and/or the person they're trying to explain it to is unlikely to accept the explanation.

This.

I could spend years in direct personal contact with someone trying to undo the decades of indoctrination they have gone through, but trying to do it through a single text post over the internet is like binge drinking pan galactic gargle blasters to boost your IQ.

Muscles posted...

There's also the fact that even if they are hiding something that doesn't mean it's something dark and terrible

There's also the added fact that, for most people's secrets, or even just mundane facts and details about their lives, it's probably none of your fucking business. So they should in no way feel obligated to give a shit about your curiosity and explain anything to you at all.

This is one of the major asshole behaviors of the modern Internet - the mindset that "the public" is entitled to know anything it wants, and that anyone who refuses to play along is either hiding something important or should be punished in some way for their silence. Nosy fucks want to know everything and will try to badger, pry, or dox it out of you if you don't play along and feed their obsessive need for information they don't actually need or deserve to know.