# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5484
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5484 "2025-07-21T18:33:29Z")
> [@Cancel Culture and Canceling versus consequences for actions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-culture-and-canceling-versus-consequences-for-actions/1020644/785): > > Another great example, thank you, and I appreciate your input here. Social media is vicious, unrelenting, and utterly unforgiving. Ruin a person’s career? Ruin their life? Drive them to suicide? Hey, that’s a feature, not a bug! Not an exaggeration: No. The first one is a headline that no respectable newspaper would ever print, unless the evidence of lying was absolutely unequivocal. What they might print is a headline and story suggesting reason to doubt the person’s veracity. Remem… @wolfpup swears that he’s not biased against Dysktra because she’s a woman, despite believing she’s lying based on just his own feelings, and zero facts. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532)._