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Is this a good response to how we should react to those who try to moderate our ideas? How do you feel about the moderating of content?
Please feel free to critique below in any way you want. Feel free to share your own passion for moderating content or your feelings about what it does in censoring what you truly want to express. Please note that I believe that we should act with compassion and kindness towards others, not an idea necessarily expressed in below.
"It is good to be ridiculous and answer things for what they are, and if it calls for it as it often does, not in the literal sense. It is also good to give people the benefit of the doubt who believe that trying to control things on the surface level rightly moderates our sense of what we ought to believe is right and wrong. The seriousness that we associate with such moderation is a learned traight. I'm not saying the act of moderating in itself is right or wrong. I'm just saying not to take things personally when others don't understand your ridiculousness, your underlying message, your true intention, etc... It is only ego-based to attach to the idea that something is personally taken from you when someone else deletes it. It doesn't mean you have to conform. It may mean you have to find a creative outlet somewhere else that doesn't limit your expression of what you want to put out into the world."
The question "Why do people take things so seriously on this site?" with details about moderation on the internet, ceased to exist before I had the chance to answer the question, so I copied and pasted it for whoever has the pleasure of seeing it.
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- ?Lv 45 years ago
Firstly, I think you mean "trait" not "traight." This question is a pretty complicate one and I don't think the answer even touched what needs to be said. I don't think I can answer it fully here. You'd need to write an essay worth of writing. But basically moderation to some extent is necessary. To what extent though, is the question