Many things can be phrased either way. You can make a declarative appeal to ethical principles or certain truths, or an imperative appeal to your own contextual authority. Which feels more natural says a lot about our political culture.
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IMO we underuse the imperative, and shoehorn things into declarative that we really mean to be imperative. "It is preferred that employees attend this seminar". Disgusting. We pretend to be free agents, but a society of such is a contradiction, so we invent passive aggression.
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Sometimes inappropriate, but what if we just start using command language more, and force the issue? Are we then forced to redevelop and explicate our contextual authority structures? Does a society that uses lots of imperative language necessarily develop chain of command?
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Are nonviolent communication, and its opposite, command language, not merely context-defined tools, but context defining? Do they have an activist effect on culture, creating more liberal or illiberal modes of thought and social organization?
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That's subjunctive vs imperative :) /pedantry
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LOL fair enough. Still, is it framed as information, or command? There's something interesting happening here
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