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by gfo 2340 days ago
Isn't this the same risk anyone enlisting in the military also runs?

Still, I agree - it would be a lot easier to avoid these awful posts if people had to pay to be on the platform. It wouldn't be perfect of course, but it at least provides a barrier to entry and a slightly harsher consequence if you forfeit your membership fee when banned for inappropriate content.

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Isn't this the same risk anyone enlisting in the military also runs?

Yes, and we've been slowly forcing the military to acknowledge to own up to that. When PTSD was first recognized (as shell shock in WWI), the initial response of the (UK) military was to declare these people physically healthy and return them to the front, or execute them for desertion. I'd say the armed forces have come a long way since.

I'd say that the military places a massive externality on society as well, so, yes.

I guess at least enlisting gets you better benefits than sitting in a mod-farm in Phoenix will.