Not "freedom of speech" - freedom to use one own's space as one's own space. The rules would be different in a community journal.
This doesn't mean there aren't consequences, of course, but I think that people need to take journal entries that they're reading with a grain of salt. It's a journal - you might end up seeing some raw, angry, sad, depressing, disgusting, angering, whatever stuff occasionally. It only makes someone more apt to keep their feelings locked up inside when the times they DO say something it's interpreted to a ridiculously out-there extreme.
I thought "venting" implied an unleashing of opinion that simply needs to be let out, not necessarily acted upon, lest one's top gets blown? When someone vents about their annoying coworker, I'm not about to step in and say, "I'm sure that if your co-worker read that they'd be hurt. You have anger management issues" because that's not what venting is about. Sometimes you just gotta let out something inconsequential that needs to be articulated before you can move on.
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Date: 2003-03-05 02:58 pm (UTC)This doesn't mean there aren't consequences, of course, but I think that people need to take journal entries that they're reading with a grain of salt. It's a journal - you might end up seeing some raw, angry, sad, depressing, disgusting, angering, whatever stuff occasionally. It only makes someone more apt to keep their feelings locked up inside when the times they DO say something it's interpreted to a ridiculously out-there extreme.
I thought "venting" implied an unleashing of opinion that simply needs to be let out, not necessarily acted upon, lest one's top gets blown? When someone vents about their annoying coworker, I'm not about to step in and say, "I'm sure that if your co-worker read that they'd be hurt. You have anger management issues" because that's not what venting is about. Sometimes you just gotta let out something inconsequential that needs to be articulated before you can move on.