Deliberately phrasing things in confrontational or aggressive ways, in the hope that this makes your conversation partner “wake up” or something.
Choosing not to hide real, potentially-important beliefs you have about the world, even though those beliefs are liable to offend people, liable to be disagreed with, etc.
Either might be justifiable, but I’m a lot more wary of heuristics like “it’s never OK to talk about individuals’ relative proficiency at things, even if it feels very cruxy and important, because people just find the topic too triggering” than of heuristics like “it’s never OK to say things in ways that sound shouty or aggressive”. I think cognitive engines can much more easily get by self-censoring their tone than self-censoring what topics are permissible to think or talk about.
I think there’s an important distinction between:
Deliberately phrasing things in confrontational or aggressive ways, in the hope that this makes your conversation partner “wake up” or something.
Choosing not to hide real, potentially-important beliefs you have about the world, even though those beliefs are liable to offend people, liable to be disagreed with, etc.
Either might be justifiable, but I’m a lot more wary of heuristics like “it’s never OK to talk about individuals’ relative proficiency at things, even if it feels very cruxy and important, because people just find the topic too triggering” than of heuristics like “it’s never OK to say things in ways that sound shouty or aggressive”. I think cognitive engines can much more easily get by self-censoring their tone than self-censoring what topics are permissible to think or talk about.