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by slackson 4174 days ago
What are the costs of trigger warnings, compared to the benefits? It seems like a blatantly worthwhile tradeoff to me.
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Trigger warnings are a form of censorship because it makes it much more expensive to talk about certain tropics (mentally) because you have to take sides (whoes concerns are worth putting a trigger warning on?) and because you weaken society to accept that other peoples actions are your responsibility - in effect you are saying that the terrorist actions are in some small part justified.