Harper's Letter on Justice and Open Debate

[Damocles]

Funnily enough, this is why I actually like being here, as opposed to more popular social media platforms. A traditional forum has a better opportunity to have a slower-paced, more in-depth discussion about the issues being presented. The pseudonymity lowers the stakes of the argument from an egoistic perspective, making it less likely for the users to shout and scream at each other, and more likely to produce rational arguments. Users can return to threads they like on successive days and come back to a multi-day dialogue with their interlocutor. Sites like Reddit are formatted in such a way that they give coverage only to that which gets a lot of clicks, rather than what drives discussions.

There’s a lot to like about this special place compared to the wider internet. Cherish it, and defend the principle of inclusion.

[Damocles]

Twitter in general has a propensity to treat even the slightest shred of evidence as fact to fit a presupposed narrative. I don’t trust twitter for anything other than links to actual sources.