I've never had a good experience "pre-empting" comments that will inevitably be used to derail your thread. In any case, I was mostly thinking that it has to b

I've never had a good experience "pre-empting" comments that will inevitably be used to derail your thread. In any case, I was mostly thinking that it has to be a form of privilege to feel like a particular slippery slope hasn't happened yet. I think about how the word "privilege" is used, and its more like "exemption from some inconveniences that aren't obvious". Your post about people not noticing that civil courts and agencies have these power over assumed rights is a decent example of that.