Truth matters. Standing by one's truth no matter what can be a challenge. My wife worked as a profiler with law enforcement many moons ago, and she always asserts that it's almost impossible to discern an untruth told by a sociopath because the sociopath has told themselves that their falsity is "true" so many times it has becometrue, within their frame of reference.

As you have mentioned, here on Steemit, it seems like some are (or have) substituted "the law of code" for independent thinking. It worries me, because it leans towards that toxic paradigm of "human serves machine" rather than the original intention of "machine serves humans." In plain non-intellectualized English: All these damned flagging bots really bug me!

Thank you for continuing to share your insights... hopefully, Steemit can still be turned into a functioning community.