Objecting to being prevented from speaking to people who want to hear you is *not* the Fallacy of Demanding to be Heard. That fallacy is when you insist you have the right to be heard by people who *don't* want to hear you.https://twitter.com/jarodcampbell1/status/983338389238898689 …
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How do you categorise proselytising?
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Well, I'm not sure that has its own category but for our purposes here, say what you want but don't force anyone to listen to you. You can proclaim a message on a street corner but you can't make people stay and listen to it.
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Cool. The reason I suggest there are shades of grey involved, is because I doubt it's clear what counts as fair game "street corner" in various contexts.
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I think it has to be somewhere someone can get away from.
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Yeah, agreed. I wonder if e.g. Twitter lacks a meaningful "street corner" on which folk can "proselytise" (street preaching still *feels* like expression after all). Perhaps explains some of the attention-seeking; after all where *else* is there here except someone's timeline?
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I'm not sure what you mean. People should be able to say whatever they want on Twitter. Other people have the means not to listen to them.
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I'm suggesting that "old fashioned life" offered opportunities for people to scratch their opinion-sharing itch, that posting from a low-follower personal Twitter account doesn't cut the mustard. And maybe that explains all the attention-hungry folk with unsophisticated opinions
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How? Surely it's easier to get access to people now?
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