A while ago, author Dan Brooks was on Twitter, and he saw a tweet that made him absolutely

livid. Would you like to read the tweet or would you like me to read the tweet?

I would like you to read the tweet.

Okay, great. Okay. If you are hiking in a group and waiting for slower people to catch up,

don't start walking again when they do catch up, because then you got a rest and they

didn't. I think about this tip a lot in many different contexts.

In many different contexts. That's the one. I think that's the one that got me.

That's Dan talking to me in our New York studio. He wrote a piece for FT Weekend magazine

inspired by this tweet.

It's called What We Need Now that Social Media has weaponized morality.

I've put it in the show notes.

Dan is aware that his reaction to the hiking advice may have been a little overblown.

But to him, it's a symptom of a much bigger phenomenon, one that's overtaken the

way we tweet and the way we talk about morality. First of all, right after I filed this piece,

I was on a hike with a group of people and one of them brought up this tweet and everyone

agreed that it was great. And I felt like such a heel. And I am probably a heel for getting

mad at this because it's like basically good sentiment. And it's a good tip for when you're hiking,

if you're used to hiking a lot and you're with someone who maybe doesn't. But like Twitter is a

particular occasion. You're talking to an audience of like like, probably just your mom and your roommate, but, like, maybe large numbers of strangers.

And there's what you communicate in the tweet, and then there's sort of what you communicate by the occasion of that tweet.

And to take the occasion of Twitter as an opportunity to give other people moral

instruction. And that last part, like I think about this tip a lot in many different contexts,

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