If you portray yourself as someone who wants to be persuasive, you better be prepared for being criticized when you are not living up to your mission. There is

If you portray yourself as someone who wants to be persuasive, you better be prepared for being criticized when you are not living up to your mission. There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be persuasive if you do anything other than persuasion but RMS is very much in the persuasion business.