[Sakes]

The way I see it, if one believes they should always be authentic, then they probably never take in to consideration how their thoughts/actions might affect others or the goals of a group. Hey, they're just being honest.

But, if one decides to potentially self sensor by taking the time to consider how their current thoughts or desired actions might affect others and they conclude they will have a negative outcome resulting in them not expressing or acting on them... Well, they may have just made a decision to be inauthentic. But they did so out of consideration and empathy for others. And if their authentic self does care for others, well maybe they are still being authentic.

If one doesn't care about others, and doesn't have empathy, well then they sound like an asshole to me. To them I say continue on spewing filterless thoughts... asshole. :)

edited for clarity.

[metaphorm]

I'm confused by your comment. Who are you calling an asshole?

[Sakes]

Not you, just some general person who believes "self monitoring" is inherently a wrong thing to do.

I probably should have used "one" instead of "you" in my above comment. My apologies. Will modify it.