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This sounds like a very US-trigger-warning-safe-spacey stance.

I think most people on this planet are able to consider each point at its face value.

> I think most people on this planet are able to consider each point at its face value.

Humans have a pretty strong demonstrated tendency to develop positive or negative emotional attachments to pretty much everything, including sources of information/arguments, and see the world strongly filtered through those. This is, while it can be misleading, an important evolved survival mechanism in terms of attention/resource management.

Most people probably can, by expending effort, mitigate that to a certain extent, but that doesn't negate it completely.

People who can't assess statements objectively are probably exactly those people whose opinion I couldn't care less about.

Perhaps this is exactly the filter I want to have.

So you would not assess their other statements objectively?

A few different people are trying to politely show you a way you're undercutting yourself.

And that's perfectly fine! I won't throw a tantrum because I might disagree (which I don't).

This is not about safe spaces, this is about basic human psychology.

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