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Mar. 16th, 2005 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dichroicOne problem I have with this whole tact concept is the balance point. When does being tactful and not raising hackles unnecessarily move from the virtue of not picking unnecessary fights to the vice of being chickenship? For example, someone on an LJ community I follow posted, "Can someone tell me _______? I don't have time to read the whole book because the presentation is tomorrow."
I'm itching to post, "How does this not translate as 'Please do my homework for me?' I haven't, frankly because I don't want people getting nasty to me in return. Or, for a more virtuous viewpoint, because that person's request isn't harming me, if I don't go do the research to answer it, and isn't really plagiarism if others choose to answer. Tact and chickenshit agree here, but it still somehow feels wrong not to post.
At any rate, it's fairly likely that in this particular community someone with more cojones or fewer sociall graces (reader's choice) will post along those lines anyway sooner or later.
I'm itching to post, "How does this not translate as 'Please do my homework for me?' I haven't, frankly because I don't want people getting nasty to me in return. Or, for a more virtuous viewpoint, because that person's request isn't harming me, if I don't go do the research to answer it, and isn't really plagiarism if others choose to answer. Tact and chickenshit agree here, but it still somehow feels wrong not to post.
At any rate, it's fairly likely that in this particular community someone with more cojones or fewer sociall graces (reader's choice) will post along those lines anyway sooner or later.
