I think virtually any strong opinion that turns out to be wrong has the potential to cause harm. I don't trust the sway of public opinion to identify them.
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Again, agreed! But in theory, abuse is already banned. In practice, most abuse gets through just fine if it avoids a few keywords. This is not an argument about whether abuse should be banned, it’s about who gets to define abuse, right?
Also about which ideas, opinions, criticisms, or other statements are *inherently* abusive
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Abuse is a social phenomenon, it exists as a relation across a socially-defined space and its presentation shifts constantly over time. What does it mean for an action to be inherently abusive? How can that be epistemologically grounded?
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If you and I disagree about what constitutes abuse, is it my network that sets the standard, or yours?
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"This is about who defines abuse" - "it is also about the definition of abuse" I feel like this being two very different perspectives on the same thing is worth pointing out.
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