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You specifically used the word 'ruthlessness', approvingly, and cited the paradox of tolerance as justification.

People are really out there being ruthless, trying to hurt people, and justifying it using your logic. It's not a strawman if it's literally happening.

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Ruthlessness does not imply force or hurting people.

It's a strawman because the situation you constructed implied things I'd never suggested and then used those to attack what I said instead of attacking what I actually said.

> It's not a strawman if it's literally happening.

That's not how strawmen works.

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