I recognize the difference, but I don’t think it’s an important one for the purposes of deciding whether to oppose a type of discussion. (I wouldn’t expect, in general, a person’s honest report of their experience to be much more valuable than someone else’s honest attempt to sketch a general model of some phenomenon.) It’s also a different objection to Dagon’s, which is basically “boo political/social identity, because identity is hard to talk about!”.
Edit to add:
Historically, we also had the downvote button.
Yep, if we still had the downvote button, I probably would’ve just downvoted Dagon’s comment and left it at that.
I recognize the difference, but I don’t think it’s an important one for the purposes of deciding whether to oppose a type of discussion. (I wouldn’t expect, in general, a person’s honest report of their experience to be much more valuable than someone else’s honest attempt to sketch a general model of some phenomenon.) It’s also a different objection to Dagon’s, which is basically “boo political/social identity, because identity is hard to talk about!”.
Edit to add:
Yep, if we still had the downvote button, I probably would’ve just downvoted Dagon’s comment and left it at that.