Are you making some kind of Hobbesian moral argument about what people are willing to promote via their own, idealized-as-individualistic habits? Notice how yo

Are you making some kind of Hobbesian moral argument about what people are willing to promote via their own, idealized-as-individualistic habits? Notice how your responses continue the conversation in a specific direction, and not in another direction. This is something you have choice over. Now imagine you automate this process with an algorithm that adaptively promotes certain replies to your comments and demotes certain other replies in a systematic fashion. Do you not then think that that algorithm has some bearing on how the conversation unfolds?