There’s a difference between explicitly informing someone about your emotions and expressing them in the tone of your writing. And I think that the former, unlike the latter, would be good. I wonder whether it would help to stabilise emotionally volatile discussions if there was a policy of giving full explicit disclosure of your emotional reactions and automatic associations raised by others’ comments when responding to them. Something like “this part of your post made me scared, the next part angry and the epilogue inexplicably caused me to think about Hitler. Sorry about that and now to adress your points...”
There’s a difference between explicitly informing someone about your emotions and expressing them in the tone of your writing.
Yes there is. They convey different meanings.
And I think that the former, unlike the latter, would be good.
You are apparently not the only person here who thinks that. To have a community ethos which forbids one to express the meaning conveyed by tone strikes me as a little odd, particularly in a community which prides itself on willingness to discuss anything.
… a policy of giving full explicit disclosure of your emotional reactions …
A “policy”? Too strong, IMO. Other than that, I liked this part of your comment. Yes, it is often best to express emotion non-judgmentally, particularly when you are not sure of the cause or justification of the emotion.
There’s a difference between explicitly informing someone about your emotions and expressing them in the tone of your writing. And I think that the former, unlike the latter, would be good. I wonder whether it would help to stabilise emotionally volatile discussions if there was a policy of giving full explicit disclosure of your emotional reactions and automatic associations raised by others’ comments when responding to them. Something like “this part of your post made me scared, the next part angry and the epilogue inexplicably caused me to think about Hitler. Sorry about that and now to adress your points...”
Yes there is. They convey different meanings.
You are apparently not the only person here who thinks that. To have a community ethos which forbids one to express the meaning conveyed by tone strikes me as a little odd, particularly in a community which prides itself on willingness to discuss anything.
A “policy”? Too strong, IMO. Other than that, I liked this part of your comment. Yes, it is often best to express emotion non-judgmentally, particularly when you are not sure of the cause or justification of the emotion.