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Wow. So now that I know that mass sociogenic illness is a thing, where do I draw the line in applying that label?


Obviously <OUTGROUP_IDEOLOGY> always was, and always will be a mass sociogenic illness.


I do wish <OUTGROUP_IDEOLOGY_MEMBERS> could just be rational for once and stop falling for demagogues and pseudoscience


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If it's not worth saying, it's not worth vagueposting about either.


If it’s not worth vagueposting about, it’s worth tweeting and TikToking about.


You are saying, because you are uncomfortable discussing it, no one should discuss it? Feel free to correct me if I'm misreading you, it sounds like you're more or less saying, "things I don't like should go away and stop existing."


No, I’m saying: if it’s not worth saying, it’s worthy of Twitter and TikTok.


It's worth saying but if I say it the comment gets flagged and no one gets to read it.


I always read flagged comments, and I vouch for them when I feel they've been unfairly flagged (or when they're from banned accounts that are automatically flagged, but the comment is unobjectionable).

This is however a tacit admission that what you have to say is against the guidelines of this site and that, were you to let it compete in the market place of ideas, it would be fail completely.


Not all scientific discussion is pleasant to hear, but it would be worth discussing, even if flagged and down voted, rather than "We were always at war with Eurasia".


The fact that an opinion is censored by the means of flagging means that it doesn't have a chance to compete in the "marketplace of ideas".


No, that is the idea being assigned a negative value.


If an idea goes against the guidelines of a website that doesn't mean it has a negative value, especially if users aren't allowed to interact with it at all.


They did interact with it. They flagged it. People generally don't consult the site's guidelines when flagging, but their own set of values.


I read flagged and dead comments. Vagueposting is now getting you flagged and deaded anyway.


I agree with your examples, though they cannot be said.. Hopefully in a saner future, it becomes possible to have a debate about that again.




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