If you want to emphasize that power in your writing, I’d recommend that when you talk about these emotional movements you use ‘you’ pronouns or speak about a community.
This might make the writing more emotionally powerful or something, but I think it’d make the post less epistemically well-grounded. One can be more certain that they experienced an effect than they can be that others would experience it.
Exactly. And in particular, it would have me prioritizing impact on others over alignment with truth. That would be antithetical to both (a) my own devotion to truth and (b) skillfully communicating the point. The version of me that would be willing to use that manipulation tool would be less clear about the whole message overall.
This might make the writing more emotionally powerful or something, but I think it’d make the post less epistemically well-grounded. One can be more certain that they experienced an effect than they can be that others would experience it.
Exactly. And in particular, it would have me prioritizing impact on others over alignment with truth. That would be antithetical to both (a) my own devotion to truth and (b) skillfully communicating the point. The version of me that would be willing to use that manipulation tool would be less clear about the whole message overall.