For me, reading LW is like removing the landmines. Many articles are essentially: “if you read or hear this, don’t automatically react this way, because that’s wrong”.
The problem is, when there are hundreds of landmines, you need to remove hundreds of them. Even if you know exactly in advance where your path will go, and you only clean landmines in the path, there is still at least a dozen of them. And all this explaining takes time. So in order to get some explanation safely across, you first need to educate the person for a while. Which feels like manipulation. And cannot be done when time is short.
For me, reading LW is like removing the landmines. Many articles are essentially: “if you read or hear this, don’t automatically react this way, because that’s wrong”.
The problem is, when there are hundreds of landmines, you need to remove hundreds of them. Even if you know exactly in advance where your path will go, and you only clean landmines in the path, there is still at least a dozen of them. And all this explaining takes time. So in order to get some explanation safely across, you first need to educate the person for a while. Which feels like manipulation. And cannot be done when time is short.