A quick question if I may...
What has happened in your life that has made you so angry, unhappy and full of hate?

My reply here doesn’t apply to this post but more of a heuristic for the already great culture as a whole, as follows: Question ideas, but not the individual.

Even if one is sure someone else is understood, a good rule of thumb is to avoid getting personal.

The message board can feel close to a coffee table, but is functionally even more like a large crowd in which a midrophone is passed around with one on the stage at a time, and each person speaks without time limit, without poltical censorship as if everywhere outside of Shrewd’m today, and without being interrupted, and many listening. A someone out of date also, in that there is no poltical censoring.

If that model is true, one in that actual situation would often gravitate away from zooming in on the personal, and show a lot of goodwill to everyone.

One’s own model of how the world works can be a lot more indoctrinated and unrealistic than one thinks.

And despite no overt censorship, there is still a risk of censoring others unwittingly, and it happens because of the following..

By being personal, it causes others with opposing views to shut down and not challenge your ideas. Being personal can create subtle censorship pressure. This is a culturally degredative to Shrewd’m - and to oneself as the best thing we can hope for is valid refutation of our own mental models, interpretations of information or believed facts. This refutation causes learning.

Question ideas, but not the individual.

- Manlobbi