The defense of things being "taken out of context" used to be a good one when discourses were strongly contained to single contexts. It isn't anymore. Writing in a potential-context-aware way is a reasonable expectation for 2018 media technology landscape.
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Yeah, you can't really do that. Speech is inherently context-dependent for interpretation.
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as a short-term defensive strategy, ok... but requiring such armoring forevermore will be a major drag on productive communication. long-term, let's expand principle-of-charity, both culturally & technologically
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Counterpoint: speech norms do in fact undergo secular shifts over time and overall get more civil, less status-posturey, less formal, more egalitarian etc. Also formal and profane/hostile tend to converge.
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Can you give an example of both for the same concept?
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