People are used to being extremely repressed still. They’re not used to being able to express whatever vitriol occurs to them, and at first it’s liberating because they’re so wound up. But eventually everyone will learn.
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People tend to follow their incentives. Verbal violence gets more attention than incisive intellectual arguments. I think if you want to diminish unpleasant interactions, you need to disincentivize them.
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Human civility failure is a fact, whether we experience it or not. It's highly doubtful how filtering or censorship does any help on the problem, nor even contains it
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Why? Filtering and censorship can keep most of the unpleasantness out of my interactions, so containment seems to work at least some of the time. (I am not involved in major controversies, so ymmv.)
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you just wake up in it
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The net's new, unnatural mix of distance & intimacy may be involved. The natural polarizing of 'us-them' is based on proximity. Maybe stressed families hold together by redirecting suppressed aggression to stereotyped others 'out there' but now they are 'right here' on our screen
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I think that we may be a naturally belligerent species whenever we think it serves our interests. We are evolved to be both cooperative and competitive.
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