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If all writing is from a present understanding, how could it hurt reader trust to acknowledge that explicitly?

• crocodiletears 5y ago
  I 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 ago
    Interesting. It sounds like we value very different kinds of writing.