George Herbert wrote:
Phil's post which started all of this rather
explicitly and literally called
the set of people opposing the removals "lunatics" and "totally
insane".
After which he then proceeded to argue that some viewpoints should simply be
excluded from future policy discussions.
Some people went hyperbolic following that, but it's hard to argue that
there wasn't provocation.
This is a big problem with using examples. It shifts the attention away
from what the example is meant to represent. The hyperbole is expressed
about the example of spoiler warnings, not the underlying issue of the
whole decision making process.
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