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by roel_v 3339 days ago
Don't get suckered into trying to write a 'clear set of guidelines' or a 'comprehensive community policy' or whatever they want to call it. 10 times out of 10, the people asking for such things are either looking to pin you on your own texts through language lawyering or are incapable of independent thought - not the sort of people you want to deal with anyway. The whole faux 'justice' (of this sort) rhetoric is just that - the upholding of an illusion of 'fairness', where that 'fairness' is a juvenile understanding of 'equal treatment no matter what', just like those who think that majority decisions are always right because they're 'democratic'.

The correct response is that of when people tried this trick on the SCOTUS when they asked it 'what is porn'. There, and here, the correct answer is: "I can't define it, but I recognize it when I see it." This of course is a deeply unsatisfying answer to people who can't (or won't) think for themselves, and doubly so for the aspi types that inhabit the interwebs in disproportionate numbers.