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Is the Fear That Someone Will Be Offended?

I think you were making an argument for holding people to account more strenuous. What i found weird about that example is your logic was actually, at least indirectly, imputing more moral responsibility for child abuse to the actual people who are perpetrating tid abuse. Yes, editors are actually pre empting trolls who take stuff out of context. And ir must be one factor a. The fear that somebody will be offended,. Cause we know what happens when te articles go viralin and the twitter verse explodes. So whether somebody's offended or nots just irrelevant. We have to ignore that this episode you're describing, angn this goes back to late two thousand 18 being overly cautious. But the

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