Day: September 19, 2010
‘Someone is wrong on the internet’: In online debates, we fail to cultivate charity and humility
A now-famous cartoon on the xkcd “webcomics” site shows a stick figure typing away at his computer keyboard as a voice from outside the frame says, “Are you coming to bed?” The figure replies: “I can’t. This is important. . . . Someone is wrong on the Internet.” I have thought a lot about why … Read more