What you cite as moral and ethical - much of which I can go along with - is sabotaged by yourself again the moment you jump on the stories of others who are upset about some other person and morally discredit them. Very bad idea.

can you explain ? I don't understand...

From my perspective, you vastly underestimate that the messages you send out into the world will always be interpreted by the receiver....

I'll take that a compliment !....and maybe you are correct - I hope so. (impossible to calculate)...This has a lot to do with my early years, and trying to talk logic and sense to idiodts ( ergo the need to reiterate and go...and on..and on... I'm aware of this, but it's very difficult to calculate )..

and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it if someone insists on their interpretation.

that would, logically speaking, mean that any communication /argument/debate- is pointless?...I disagree (using anecdotal evidence)

Just as I, for example, am unlikely to convince you that I think your postings are self-sabotage in many ways.

In terms of confronting authority?..Well of course, it must be , by definition. (you old pragmatist, you ! lol)

When are you going to learn that the whole thing can be gamed....

I knew that 6 hours after joining steem. Not my motivation.
If I have to, I can easily have income that is not reliant on writing - it's my preferred choice. I don't mind the effort/hours inputted/reward correlation. It's enough.

You call for the operators and want them to make an example of Opidia (or whoever you are targeting) for what they are doing here on the blockchain as immoral, at the same time you are committing an immoral act yourself (your blind spot?). On the one hand you appeal to an authority (funny that you don't see that) on the other hand you reject it when it then appears and disagrees with you.

Where have I asked for anyone to make an example of anyone?
An immoral act?...explain?
The 'appeal to authority' must be connected with the first part - which if I have done this , I'm unaware, so would be indeed be a blind spot ...can please point it out to me...?

Hence my question: what if the founder of blurt had agreed with you? What if he had actually called the user exploitative and misbehaving, publicly?

Cool .

....and what do you think, is it right that anyone could be publicly pilloried in this way at any time, something that the opponents of the so-called new world order are constantly warning about: the fight between people on a horizontal level.

I think if you ente rnto the public forum and speak your truth, by defualt you're putting yourself f in line for criticism, praise, - good and bad - postive and negative - but you are choosing to put yourself into the public square, and all that comes with that..

May I give you some advice? I would leave all the moralising alone for once.

If the debate is a moral one, no. Free speech is based upon moral foundations... ergo you cannot argue about free speech without referencing it's origins. In inextricable.

As you always say, I only want to help. HaHa! You could start paying me for it. :D

Lol...I like you- a lot .... but I don't trust you. (no offence taken, I would hope). You 'help' with your comments.
You need to see may rates !...

Every solution to a problem creates its own new problems. No matter what it is, it will always go on like this, because there is no such thing as a final solution, no final "we are all satisfied now". I find it easy to see that this is so. Don't you?

Too broad of a question to give simple answer to. The variable of each situation makes it impossible to give blanket statement that is in any way accurate.

You need not convince me that you are a good person.

I wasn't trying to.

But as you mentioned it, why don't you publish those things and give some stories about the cookings and the encounters you have? Tell some real life stories? You think, they are uninteresting? Then make them entertaining. Ask those people from real life encounters funny/unusual questions and tell about it. I mean, why not?

I would love to spend my time on here doing nothing but funny shit, telling tales of a nutty life, etc- as I have done over the years on steem and hive, blah blah.....
You saw the silly post about 'the first blurt meetup ?, my satirical takes on the worlds insanity?..I would MUCH prefer to focusing my energies there.
You have no idea how much I would prefer that. (honestly, you really don't).

My preferences are not important right now - if there are bigger things to address, my 'funny mode' disappears, and 'serious work' takes it's place. That is where I am now.
^the pragmatist looks at this last paragraph, and does not comprehend it ?^