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While you may have valid points, your tone is aggressive, emotional, and unproductive. > people who's ideas feel repressive or too far out there either learn t
by TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
While you may have valid points, your tone is aggressive, emotional, and unproductive.
> people who's ideas feel repressive or too far out there either learn to monitor their own extreme ideas or they are shunned. That's how a civil society works.
This can be taken too far, however. Complete suppression of nonpopular views can maintain an unproductive status quo, and may lead to authoritarianism.
- BatFastard 9y agoBut indeed is that not what you just did with me? Tried to moderate it so that it feels less aggressive and more comfortable.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agoI didn't suppress your main idea, I just critiqued the way in which you conveyed it. Highly emotional posts on this site aren't good because of the voting system; comments become voted on not because of their merit or contribution to the conversation, but because the reader agrees or disagrees with them, which is fine for sites like Reddit, but we try to maintain a more thoughtful culture on this site. If we want to advance the conversation, the best way to do that is to focus on the logic that determined your opinion instead of the emotion.