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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Being careful about the info you give cause it might be weaponized by bad people feels like a good short-term strategy, but bad long-term one. I firmly believe that consistent honesty, even when it seems bad people might take advantage, is the best long-term strategy. 1/
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@Aella_Girl
Bad people who weaponize things *expect* you to be engaging in war with them - withholding info out of fear it might reinforce their opinions. They expect that you are optimizing for ideology war and are not interested in truth, and this ultimately *supports* them.
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@Aella_Girl
Being honest about things that might appear to support the side you disagree with is an act of alliance and trust - "I am not going to hide a vulnerability". In order to get people to trust your commitment to truth, you must first be committed to truth!
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I feel weird and bad when people are like "you know making that argument is something that the Bad Side use to weaponize hatred." And like, maybe, but if I hide true things because of that, I just become part of the problem, I'm burning the landscape of trust in each other.
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