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by justonenote 504 days ago
That would be removing information and strictly worse that including it.

Communication is about communicating information, sometimes a terse short and aggressive style is the most effective way. It activates neurons in a way a paragraph of polite argumentation doesn't.
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Hello71 504 days ago
the contention of your respondents and downvoters is that regardless of your intention, the extra information actually communicated is "i'm an asshole".
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justonenote 504 days ago
Fine, that's still extra information.

More accurately in the context of the comment, its "Im gonna be an asshole to you because I think you don't have the life experience I do", which is at least, some kind of signal.

I wasn't the original responder btw.

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