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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