[johnfn]

Alright, but don't you understand what's going on here? If I don't emphasize that line, I'm going to inevitably get comments like "you're comparing filesharing to slavery which illegitimizes your entire argument." In the exact same way that GP did anyways, and in the same way that when I later said that saying that industries were dying illegitimized my argument because I didn't make it clear enough which industries those were.

When people jump to using all caps, it's not because they love all caps. It's because the formatting provided to them by the platform isn't good enough to articulate their ideas clearly.

I need more formatting options!

[dang]

The guidelines helpfully suggest which formatting option to use instead. Really though, if you have this conundrum, it's probably time to reconsider your slavery comparison.

[johnfn]

But I'm not comparing filesharing to slavery.

You see? Even you missed that point. And it was in all caps. You think that italics would have helped? :P

Maybe I just shouldn't even make reference to slavery at all. No matter how tangentially related the reference is. It's like an inverse Godwin's law where you try to say something like "this one guy, who was incidentally Hitler's friend, said something that refutes your point..." and your interlocutor automatically claims Godwin's law.

[dang]

Right. If you fly close to a black hole there's no point complaining about getting sucked in.