That doesn’t really suit me very well; I’ve made a prior commitment to myself to stand by everything I’ve said (even if that means publicly acknowledging and retracting it); this is just a rather infuriating cost of that that I’m hoping to mitigate politically, if possible.
Because I consider the risks inherent in being able to manipulate my public image to outweigh the benefits. Hiding my prior statements, beliefs and behaviors, rather than acknowledging them and learning from them, leads me down a slippery slope that I’d rather just build a Schelling fence around.
That doesn’t really suit me very well; I’ve made a prior commitment to myself to stand by everything I’ve said (even if that means publicly acknowledging and retracting it); this is just a rather infuriating cost of that that I’m hoping to mitigate politically, if possible.
Why?
Because I consider the risks inherent in being able to manipulate my public image to outweigh the benefits. Hiding my prior statements, beliefs and behaviors, rather than acknowledging them and learning from them, leads me down a slippery slope that I’d rather just build a Schelling fence around.