(I'm the anonymous reply to your other comment, failed to log in there, sorry)
> Harassment is not a hypothetical situation -- it happens all the time
You haven't given any specific situations where this has happened, which is what you demanded from the "other side".
> so I think it's okay to take action to prevent it even if there are bad things that could hypothetically happen as a result
Only to the extent that the things we're doing actually help though. It's very easy to fall into the "something must be done, this is something, therefore this must be done" fallacy.
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Re: Interesting, but incomplete picture…
Date: 2017-12-23 10:53 am (UTC)> Harassment is not a hypothetical situation -- it happens all the time
You haven't given any specific situations where this has happened, which is what you demanded from the "other side".
> so I think it's okay to take action to prevent it even if there are bad things that could hypothetically happen as a result
Only to the extent that the things we're doing actually help though. It's very easy to fall into the "something must be done, this is something, therefore this must be done" fallacy.