Argumentative Penguin
1 min readSep 29, 2022

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I suspect you’re right and it no doubt happens. The difference in our approaches is what we’d consider the decent thing to do. While it may be decent in the short term to not trigger people’s emotional responses, it’s akin to keeping your kids inside so they don’t get hurt. What you end up with is kids who don’t want to leave the safety of their parents house and who cannot function in the real world. Even if my error was deliberate (and it wasn’t) the response wasn’t proportional or measured. If you can’t go through life without seeing veiled attacks at every juncture then you need boundaries and therapeutic input…. Your method, whilst nicer brings about trigger creep because it doesn’t address the underlying fundamental issue. You can either make society safer to an escalating set of nonsense demands from a myriad of voices or you say society isn’t safe and you must deal with it. It’s one of the reasons I love Steve QJ’s work, it’s far more psychologically balanced. :o)

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Argumentative Penguin
Argumentative Penguin

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