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Many years ago, at the very beginning of my training to become a therapist, I was having a conversation with a friend (not a therapist) about the challenges of personal security for therapists.

She said, of some example I gave of a threat to therapist safety, "But surely no reasonable person would ever do that!"

"I'm pretty sure," I replied, "the population of people with whom therapists work is not limited only to people who are *reasonable*."

I think of that conversation often when discussing social media. Many of the people who wind up in positions to decide how social media platforms operate and how to try to handle the social problems on them are nice, middle class, college educated, white collar folks whose general attitude to various social challenges is "But surely no reasonable person would ever do that!"

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