I think there’s something much more fundamental at stake here, which is that an intellectual forum that’s being held hostage to people’s feelings is intrinsically hampered and can’t be at the forefront of advancing the art of human rationality.
An intellectual forum that is not being “held hostage” to people’s feelings will instead be overrun by hostile actors who either are in it just to hurt people’s feelings, or who want to win through hurting people’s feelings.
It’s just that, ultimately, I think that my sensitivity and vulnerability is my problem.
Some sensitivity is your problem. Some sensitivity is the “problem” of being human and not reacting like Spock. It is unreasonable to treat all sensitivity as being the problem of the sensitive person.
An intellectual forum that is not being “held hostage” to people’s feelings will instead be overrun by hostile actors who either are in it just to hurt people’s feelings, or who want to win through hurting people’s feelings.
Some sensitivity is your problem. Some sensitivity is the “problem” of being human and not reacting like Spock. It is unreasonable to treat all sensitivity as being the problem of the sensitive person.