The techniques are particularly useful for deflecting or deflating personal attacks without sacrificing your own position via supplication. (I present this as an example of the kind of topic which I would make posts on if we had a place where we allowed discussion of social pragmatics.)
I don’t think that’s a “banned topic”. I think it would, in fact, be well received.
I don’t think that’s a “banned topic”. I think it would, in fact, be well received.