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Why does everyone have to share their real life identity on the Internet? Why do you care?

Many people base their judgment of somebody on the person’s ideals rather than actual accomplishments. My gut feeling is that gp wanted to evaluate Stiver on something else rather than personal accomplishments.

It’s another sign of the performative society we live into, where work and accomplishments don’t matter but virtue signalling does.

Funny that you're judging me by assuming that I want to judge him. It just struck me as unusual (and a bit sad) to see this obituary without anything personal. But I don't feel in any way "entitled" to get any personal details, far from it...

related https://sive.rs/anon

> If you defiantly refuse to say who you are, it can make people angry that you’re upsetting social reciprocity. You know who they are, but they don’t know who you are. It feels rude. An obsessive personality might make it their damn mission to figure out who you are!

To be frank, fuck them. I’m not inventing an entire persona and stuff just to make some weirdos happy.

If you were running an online criminal empire like this guy, you might want to

online criminal empire?

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