The comments here seem less charitable than I would have expected, especially given the post’s score.
I think one of the important sources of pushback is this:
And this is why my general philosophy for people who frame control is “burn it with fire.” … In this, I am a conflict theorist; this is not a mistake, this is war.
If someone wants to declare war, it seems good for people to double-check the casus belli, and point out the gaps instead of silently filling them in. (“Frame control is a thing to watch out for” and “we should exile the frame controllers” are pretty different claims.)
She didn’t say “we should exile the frame controllers”, she said things like “I will try to remove you from the power you might use to hurt anybody else”. Surely the post could have been phrased even more as a first-person-owned-experience thing, but IMO it’s pretty much like that as is. It reads to me much more as “my experience and attitude is X” than as “we (or you) should do X”.
(Also, I agree with you that it makes sense to deliberate seriously on decisions like “declaring war”. I just didn’t take the post as proposing war, I took it as Aella expressing her stance. I’m not sure what a better way to phrase what she was trying to say would have been?)
Also, fwiw, I kind of wish I’d left that first sentence out, because it feels like the least important part of my comment but it’s what you responded to. I am much more invested in the rest of what I wrote.
I think one of the important sources of pushback is this:
If someone wants to declare war, it seems good for people to double-check the casus belli, and point out the gaps instead of silently filling them in. (“Frame control is a thing to watch out for” and “we should exile the frame controllers” are pretty different claims.)
She didn’t say “we should exile the frame controllers”, she said things like “I will try to remove you from the power you might use to hurt anybody else”. Surely the post could have been phrased even more as a first-person-owned-experience thing, but IMO it’s pretty much like that as is. It reads to me much more as “my experience and attitude is X” than as “we (or you) should do X”.
(Also, I agree with you that it makes sense to deliberate seriously on decisions like “declaring war”. I just didn’t take the post as proposing war, I took it as Aella expressing her stance. I’m not sure what a better way to phrase what she was trying to say would have been?)
Also, fwiw, I kind of wish I’d left that first sentence out, because it feels like the least important part of my comment but it’s what you responded to. I am much more invested in the rest of what I wrote.