Equal Reputation

3/17/2008.

I'm against the discrimination of reputation. I believe we should follow the same moral guideline we have about an incident committed by a person as with an incident committed by a person that built a reputation.

This is best explained by an example.

If a chatroom operator makes a rule to govern his chatroom, he shouldn't allow those he likes to be okay with "bending" or breaking the chatroom rules. If you have a view of something in the wrong, you shouldn't let someone's reputation get to you.

Real life does not have this problem, typically.

An example in real life, is, persay, a 30 year-old police officer, whom has his own moral code that a 50 year-old should not have sex with a 17 year-old. However, if a 50 year-old police officer, whom might top him in senority, has consensual sex with a 17 year-old, this should not make this any okay in the views of the 30 year-old cop. If he were against 50 year olds having sex with 17 year-olds in general, he should also be against a senior cop having sex with a 17 year-old. The older cop's "reputation" should not be considered.

So we're not talking about any difference in legality here - but everyone's own moral code. If I'm against a certain thing, it shouldn't matter if I had a friend I knew for a long time committing it - the fact that he might be my friend should not excuse it.

Apparently, this is a real problem on the Internet, particularly in chatrooms and in message boards (Wikipedia is not among this). So much scandals, sexual favors, etc., going around.

So if a person you don't like does something you don't like, then a person you do like that does the same thing the person you didn't like does, you should be against it in the same way. Basically, reputation shouldn't mean shit for anything in terms of anyone's personal morality.

If *anyone* does something you don't like or are against, that doesn't justify that someone you do like doing the same thing should be okay in your own moral code.

This whole article was inspired by the fact that if someone doesn't like someone as a person, then this could affect that whatever this person did (in terms of his views and opinions), the person would also dislike. Which is of course, utter, nonsense. I also wanted to base this in terms of opinions. If someone you don't like has an opinion that you don't like, then if someone you do like has the same opinion as that of someone you don't like, you should treat the opinion the same regardless of who holds it.

The reason I write this article is among scandals that the higher-ups have for other higher-ups and will allow each other for doing something in the wrong that they would have viewed if someone whom wasn't a higher-up did.. The fact that someone likes someone will justify that someone doing something in the wrong. Which I am against.