[vlz]

I feel you. Whenever this topic comes up I am somewhat torn. On the one hand just pointing out facts should clearly suffice everyone to behave properly on the other hand it clearly doesn’t.

Where I often land is, that the dichotomy between scolding and persuasion might simply be a false one. The Viridians, if I may call them that, also seem to think that we can only do one or the other, that we have to decide. It is however not necessarily inconsistent to both scold and try to persuade people, especially for organizations or movements.

In our personal relations we are either angry at someone and might scold them or we are more sympathetic and might try to persuade, both behaviors are mutually exclusive as they are grounded in different emotions. However, a societal movement is not bound by personal emotions like that and can, maybe should employ both strategies and probably more.

As an individual it can also be fine to "scold" more in one case and persuade more in another, whatever seems more authentic and fits the situation and the personal background and emotions. There might simply be no need to decide on one strategy.