At this point, my mental model of you responds with something like
You’re probably correct on the consequential analysis (i.e., the softened version would be more likely to be persuasive)[1], but I don’t think it follows that we as a community should therefore moderate vibes because [very eloquently argued case about censorship being bad that I won’t try to replicate here]
If you don’t think this, then that would be a crux, but also I’d be very surprised and, not sure how I’d continue the conversion then, but for now I’m not thinking too much about this.
FWIW, I absolutely do not think that the “softened” version would be more likely to be persuasive. (I think that the “softened” version is much worse, even more so than Zack does.)
FWIW, I absolutely do not think that the “softened” version would be more likely to be persuasive. (I think that the “softened” version is much worse, even more so than Zack does.)