But what if they mutate?!

No, I don’t believe the popular opinion is inherently the right one.

I’m not making appeals to popular opinion, my initial, and only, stance is that “free speech” is not the same as “consequence-free speech.”

“how the hell do you know what I want?”

That’s an inherently aggressive statement.

It’s fine, but no reasonable person would think much differently.

Also, generalizing me with “you all” is a defensive catch-all to be dismissive of my point without actually making a stand for your own values.

It’s just a you-and-me conversation right now

Read: “contextually” and “sounds more like”

If you don’t like how you’re being called out then you should be introspective into why a generic statement made you so upset.

It’s not gaslighting when there’s a straight line of evidence.

To the wider world it looks like this: “Why do people think I don’t like dogs?! Just because I said I don’t like that you can’t kick dogs without getting a ticket nowadays! I didn’t kick any, I’m just saying!”

Define “free speech,” because contextually what you want sounds more like “speech without consequence” which is not the same thing, but rather a veil of plausible deniability in which to hide in, while being hateful.

It even comes with a built-in flash to show you did it right!

“Random door is now fused closed permanently 3km away”

“Why would you use Elvish for an earth-spell?? Dwarven is clearly the more appropriate language, especially if it’s an incantation”

“It’s fine like it is! It works, ok?”

It absolutely does, wild cats both large and small help their young by training them this way, it’s the cutest way to raise your murder mittens

Then it seems like I started life in the “Problemo” level, gotta go find this elevator to rectify this.

Capitalism will always capitalism. “Oh, we have to provide a healthy option? Okay, it’ll be the expensive option.” “Oh, we have to support software? Okay, subscription models only” “Oh, we have to pay our workers minimum wage? Okay, we’ll pay them not a penny more and raise our prices”

It’s an endless fight… Yet, we can’t stop fighting it, because attrition of our values and apathy in our actions are weapons the system uses against us.