> They could have been the focus of the photo and I still think it would have been morally acceptable to post it.
No. No it wouldn't have been.
You have absolutely zero need to post any picture online. It is a choice; a choice to further humliate the individual, possibly even causing them greater distress.
People who post pictures with justification like yours have caused those who are the target of the cruelty to commit suicide.
You do not need to post anything on social media. You choose to do so. And by choosing to post an embarrassing moment, you are the problem and you are morally in the wrong.
If this [1] is the xkcd strip we're talking about, and don't see how Randall Munroe isn't advocating for free speech, nor how it is a left vs right issue. He's simply saying "free speech means the government cannot arrest you for what you say", nothing more, nothing less. He furthermore argues that the right to free speech doesn't mean everyone else can't criticize you, have your shows/books/whatever canceled, shout you down, etc. He says "[free speech] doesn't shield you from criticism or consequences".
Now, you may or may not agree with his position (I certainly don't agree with some key aspects of it) but Randall is explaining what free speech is, not arguing for censorship.
It's not the sole focus of the book, but I recall "A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss mentioning it a couple of times, particularly in the case that only that set of elements in exactly those proportions leads to the Big Bang as the primary theory of how it all began.
> if you spot something "wrong", don't react immediately and don't interrupt. Let the other party finish. Make a note. Gather more information
The problem is that people doing the " wrong" thing (with varying degrees of wrong, which I did too and still do) will think they are right, they will usually do a presentation of their solution to people that are less knowledgeable than they are to win the "this was the only practical way given the time we had and also it works" (kinda, if we don't count when it fails) argument, lure them in their teams, keep pushing out half baked solutions that they will then rewrite "to improve them" for karma points, wasting everybody's time and company money.
It works because there are always processes that are worse than bad software.
So bad software usually is not the worse thing you can find in a company and can always blame some other department for being horribly inefficient, everybody wins, salaries are paid every month and 2 years later nobody knows what "the thing" does and why.
But it's an excuse not not do better when it's possible.
a task that takes half an hour can't take 12 days and 6 meetings "so we can talk about it" they say, truth is they are simply pushing their view.
I get people are different and have different incentives, but we don't let people like me go into space just because we shouldn't point out a problem when we see it
Software development is about being as thorough as possible while also being flexible.
I always wonder why we keep asking people who see the problem to stay quiet while people causing them are encouraged to keep making them, so they can learn.
What if people doing the "wrong" thing start listening and do what they are told and if it doesn't work they can blame who said them they were wrong?
Saying no sometimes makes you the lonliest person in the office, but somebody gotta do it or nothing will ever change.
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No. No it wouldn't have been.
You have absolutely zero need to post any picture online. It is a choice; a choice to further humliate the individual, possibly even causing them greater distress.
People who post pictures with justification like yours have caused those who are the target of the cruelty to commit suicide.
You do not need to post anything on social media. You choose to do so. And by choosing to post an embarrassing moment, you are the problem and you are morally in the wrong.