I had forgotten how stress testing for claims’ counterexamples or edge cases was “playing the devil’s advocate”, a deeply anti-social action one did not take in polite society without a whole fucking ritual of contrition and apology. No one was running any claims that they were making through the least convenient world filter; people were just making all sorts of claims with their mouths, which I was slowly starting to understand were connected to their asses instead of their brain stems, and to my dismay I felt my free speech absolutism also beginning to circle the drain.

— Jenn, In My Misanthropy Era, 2026