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Originally Posted by Old Fox
Animeher points to the utility of straight and honest talk. We all learn from an unbiased dissection of the trip, an uninhibited sharing of the spicy details. Yes, thats enticing and good in a way. But then can a post or two give you the real picture? We are talking of real persons here. If I have a better way with words, I can take apart another person and he probably would be hard put getting his side of the story up at equal value. And there are better ways of sharing and putting things up for learning than turning them into spicy episodes that probably typecast a person in a certain manner. Asrani could never get beyond his 'Jailer' image from Sholay  . |
Even though I support the idea of penning the truth than concealing it, I agree to OF, that a person with an edge (in this case, a better writing flair) has an unfair advantage, and the events may be tilted to favor only one side.
I remember a line in Gandhiji's autobiography. When he was leaving India in youth for education, his mother told him never to eat goat and chicken. But all he saw was meat and beaf. So technically, he could have eaten it and still kept his word to his mother. But he wrote, in such circumstances of unclear decision, always the party with less advantage should be given priority, and hence he remained a vegetarian.
Even in writing or any other communication where one may feel to dissect some one (even if it may be right), still I believe at least between friends, the one with edge should be more careful than the other, because he has the responsibility of power.
Was it too philosophical?
