On: Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for Steve Jobs?

[cperciva]

I'd rather be poor, friendless, and honest than be rich and have friends only because I refused to air controversial opinions.

I'm glad I don't have any investors or employees who could be hurt, though.

[shinratdr → cperciva]

You seem to think you are being brutally honest. You aren't, you're being painfully arrogant. There is a massive difference.

[cperciva → shinratdr]

I expressed an honestly held opinion. It is possible that opinion was the result of painful arrogance. Those are not contradictory.

[sunchild → cperciva]

Taking the opportunity of a man's death to call him overrated is not speaking truth to power: it's tacky and tasteless by any measure.

[crc → cperciva]

Don't pride yourself too much on being "honest". It is far easier to go around always telling the truth than to apply discretion.

[shinratdr → cperciva]

Typically people understand being brutally honest as providing a painful to hear but helpful or contributory opinion.

When your opinion comes from nothing but arrogance, ignorance, and a 4chan style need to draw attention to yourself by being deliberately insensitive, then your opinion isn't brutally honest. It's worthless, and you should keep it to yourself.