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the Slate Star Codex comments policy is a failure because it punishes unnecessary rudeness but not unnecessary moralization.

Rudeness degrades a conversation; moralization destroys it.

The most natural self-defense to someone getting moralistic at you is to tell them to go fuck themselves, which is rude and thus illegal.

Well-kept gardens die by anarchotyranny.

@admittedlyhuman Rudeness, like many weapons, is useful in some hands and more strongly anti-useful in other hands.