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While I'd like to agree with your points about the potential downfalls of therapy, and the troublesome implications of these applied at scale to the perverse in
by spicymapotofu 3y ago
While I'd like to agree with your points about the potential downfalls of therapy, and the troublesome implications of these applied at scale to the perverse incentives of a pro-therapy society, I cannot. Your tone is far too adversarial here for the kind of productive conversation I'd like to see or be a part of. That user's response carried none of the malice you attribute to it, and I believe you should reconsider how you address conversations like this.
- Michelangelo11 3y agoThe response was enormously condescending, for reasons I went into at length, so I think the tone was justified. That the response was worded politely doesn't really matter. > While I'd like to agree with your points about the potential downfalls of therapy, and the troublesome implications of these applied at scale to the perverse incentives of a pro-therapy society, I cannot. Sorry, but I think being able to separate tone from substance is something pretty fundamental for having discussions you can learn from, so I wouldn't have much to tell you on this score even if I agreed about the tone being too adversarial. Now I would respect something like "I agree with your points, but please lower the tone". But saying "I can't agree with your points because of your tone" -- come on.