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Originally Posted by stopdog
The mere act of posting on a forum is not the same as asking for advice. The article acknowledges a difference.
"Asking a group of people, even strangers, for advice can give you a great variety of helpful ideas. (Many people in my forum have found this to be the case.) But what about when advice is offered when you didn’t ask for it?"
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I guess it depends on how one interprets the bolded stmts. Ya sign onto a website that purports to support those crossing the road; you express difficulties with crossing said road; other road crossers offer their support, sometimes in the form of relating their experiences - yeah, i hit that bump too. Sometimes in the form of just offering a shoulder.
But if you want to stop crossing the road and go back to where you started, do you have the right to drag somebody back with you? "Hes not heavy, hes my brother" implies continuing on the path together, maybe a little slower, but not turning back.