{"id":479,"date":"2002-08-14T16:01:06","date_gmt":"2002-08-15T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=479"},"modified":"2020-07-11T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T22:20:07","slug":"do-as-i-suggest-not-as-i-am-constrained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"do as I suggest, not as I am constrained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven den Beste, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denbeste.nu\/cd_log_entries\/2002\/08\/Anactoffaith.shtml\">&#8220;An act of faith&#8221;<\/a>, puts words in the mouth of an anonymous blogger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. I, myself, do not admit to holding those opinions to those around me because I&#8217;m afraid of the consequences.  But I believe that American voters should do what I say, not what I do, and they should publicly embrace the opinions that I myself fear to admit to in my own name.<br \/>\nThey should be courageous and take chances based on my writings, even though I&#8217;m not willing to.  They should risk social censure, even though I do not.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read the blog in question, so I won&#8217;t comment on it in specific; but &#8212;you knew a &#8216;but&#8217; was coming, didn&#8217;t you?&#8212; but it seems to me not unreasonable to say: &#8220;Here are some things I wish someone would do, and I hope to persuade you that they are good ideas.  I am unwilling or unable to do them myself; but maybe my constraints do not apply to you.  Maybe you can see a way to do whatever-it-is without the same risk that holds me back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe only an underachiever would think of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven den Beste, in &#8220;An act of faith&#8221;, puts words in the mouth of an anonymous blogger: .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. I, myself, do not admit to holding those opinions to those around me because I&#8217;m afraid of the consequences. But I believe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogdom","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}