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You could consider adding the sentence to your blog post: “I have written the above based on my present understanding, experience and maturity. As these improve
by solarengineer 5y ago
You could consider adding the sentence to your blog post: “I have written the above based on my present understanding, experience and maturity. As these improve over time, hopefully my opinions would improve too!”
- vorpalhex 5y agoIt would be harmful to add such a disclaimer. It would not assuage those who would take offense and it would hurt reader trust. All writing is from a present understanding.
- kixiQu 5y agoIf all writing is from a present understanding, how could it hurt reader trust to acknowledge that explicitly?
- crocodiletears 5y agoI would expect the following kind of writers to use that that disclaimer: * The writer expresses poorly considered opinions, loosely holds them. They won't bother defending them. * The writer expresses anodyne opinions that might one day become controversial, they won't bother holding onto them when the rest of society moves on from them. In both cases, I wouldn't bother reading what they had to say. I could open the opinion section of any newspaper to get the same content with twice the conviction. Nothing wrong with hedging your opinions in-text. But if you're hedging everything you say before you've even bothered to say it, you either have nothing interesting to say or probably censor yourself enough already.
- kixiQu 5y agoInteresting. It sounds like we value very different kinds of writing.
- bencollier49 5y agoThat sounds like something from a struggle session, just written preemptively.
- FalconSensei 5y agoconsidering people pick tweets from 10 years ago out-of-context (and out of the thread they are part of), I don't see much benefit