buybuydandavis comments on The ethics of eating meat

buybuydandavis 19 Feb 2016 1:57 UTC
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You may not mind them, but the effects of upvotes and downvotes are not symmetric, particularly for newcomers.

but I do care about the message sent to other users, that groupthink is more important than information.

Did somebody send that message? The OP? Me? Western Union?

This brings to mind another reason for my response:

Downvoted, because this is far too deeply nested with identity politics. Should it be? Nothing should be. But a lot of things are, including diet.

What did that mean? You want to discourage topics that some people feel strongly about?
- OrphanWilde 19 Feb 2016 13:23 UTC
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  Did somebody send that message? The OP? Me? Western Union?
  
  You.
  
  What did that mean? You want to discourage topics that some people feel strongly about?
  
  No, I desire to support the community norms against said topics, because Chesterton’s Fence and also my early experiments into political discourse here, while they didn’t go as badly as some people expected, also didn’t go well, either.