This assumes that readers & listeners are reasonable enough to only lose control in special circumstances. In fact, many readers and listeners live in a constant of barely suppressed outrage & need no excuse to release it.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1086894803986587649 …
Good point. I mean angry and incoherent above the background radiation of everyday Twitter.
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I think some people are just primed to go off as well, like a certain author of books about risks & deadlifts, but your point is probably true of people for whom that anger & incoherence is uncharacteristic.
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One problem with Paul’s heuristic might be that anger/outrage can cloud judgment and reasoning, rendering the angry unable to articulate something coherently regardless of whether or not a coherent critique actually exists
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