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No. I'm saying you shouldn't deceptively use people for your personal benefit by interrupting whatever they're doing with a pretextual request as a form of therapy for yourself. I …

Would it or does it? In fairness, I used to write like this too. If the theory endorses selfish deceptions then its not worth adherence. If it doesn't endorse them, then it doesn't…

You didn't have to read or respond to my comment. If you're suggesting that commenting on an article is equivalent to approaching a stranger in-person with a pretextual request cal…

maybe but making the decision for someone else of whether, when, and how their anxieties should be challenged is, again, kind of shitty

It wouldn't pass an IRB. This sort of thing is fundamentally selfish. At best de minimis but you can imagine how annoying public life would get if tacitly recruiting strangers as u…

Asking strangers for things subjects them to anxiety too. Doing it as a form of free therapy is kind of shitty.

Asking people for things subjects them to anxiety too. Doing it as a form of free therapy is kind of shitty.