6. I both genuinely don’t understand and genuinely understand how R. Kelly has managed to evade prison.

The point of Rich’s piece is that you ARE the bad actor when you try and correct someone. You aren’t making the world a better place, that is just disingenuous.

Found it. I wrote my own post about how someone was going to write exactly what you just wrote and their motivations for it. If only I scrolled down in the comments section a bit first I could have cited you.

Except, everyone doesn’t accept someone. Sometimes they may have reasons for it, but what makes those reasons better or worse? In a world where everything is subjective, we can’t just let everyone “be.”

He is saying that people need to knock it off when they correct people about minor language tics, and how doing so is really more about the dopamine hit of having power over someone than it is about making the world a better place.

One is the seemingly widely held belief that people deserve to be comfortable at all times. I understand the general idea in terms of physical and mental safety, but I think there must be limits given the varying comfort levels and facilitators within our species. If you are uncomfortable being spoken to in some…