• Rottcodd@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I choose to hold myself to high standards. Writing is one of the great joys of my life, and there are few things I enjoy more than the satisfaction I feel when I do it well.

    Additionally:

    If someone disagrees or has a problem with what you say then they can just say so and you can clarify.

    Would that that were so, but the reality of the internet in this benighted age is that many (most?) who misrepresent another’s position do so not because they sincerely try but fail to understand it, but because it serves their purposes to do so, and no amount of clarification is going to overcome that. It’s a waste of effort at best, and is actually often detrimental, since saying more just provides them with more fodder for even more fallacies and diversions.

    Which is another reason that I write for my own satisfaction.

    Thanks for the response though.