>>3411
by genuine you mean real? opposed to fake or false, not sure what to make of that.
>what i mean is that genuine man is genuine everywhere. a fake man is fake everywhere.
while all truthfulness presupposes an idea of equality, we shall not call a man "fake" if he refuses to trust what have been proven to be untrustworthy. i continue, we are not only trusting the stranger on the web, but also the people who build or maintain this infrastructure (third-party software, protocols, operating systems and ISPs), which have been proven to be not entirely reliable.
>moral ambiguity, cards, fakery and expectations
you're describing a choleric constitution of mind, his conduct is artificial since he considers his own value and the value of his things and actions on the basis of the propriety or the appearance. he adopts all sorts of standpoints in order to judge his propriety or actions from the various attitudes of the onlookers; for he asks little about what he is, but only about what he seems. he is honored in his presence and criticized in his absence - he has no friends at all.
meanwhile, a steadfast man subordinates his sentiments to principles since they are the less subject to inconstancy and alteration, hence he troubles himself little about how others judge and what they hold to be good or true since he relies solely on his own insight.