[Redway]

I like how people you have no business trusting with your integrity in the first place think that telling you to “your face” in a virtual realm that they have a problem with you means serious business. You wouldn’t say it to my face in real life because we don’t know each-other and wouldn’t recognise each-other from a tin of Carnation-milk on the street. It’s not emboldened, just petty. Face-to-face trust (of integrity, of dignity with personal matters, of mutual respect) matters much more face-to-face when you’re not close to actually being friends with them, online or offline. I do need to be able to trust bank-workers with my financial integrity but I don’t need to trust a stranger on Instagram-threads to honour my integrity if we don’t see eye-to-eye on something. The natural instinct outside of having a kind of personal relationship with them or perceiving a tinge of affability that doesn’t compromise or change on people like a whim is not to trust. Stranger-danger.