+If being a good person means submitting to social pressure aimed at getting me to _shut up and stop thinking_ about the true nature of the beautiful feeling at the center of my life for _twenty-five fucking years_ (!?), then I have _no interest_ in being a good person.
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+I'm certainly not _trying_ to say things that will hurt people—_least_ of all people who are mostly just like me but read different books in a different order and are living out a pretty decent approximation of _my wildest fantasy_.
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+But if you try _not_ to say things that will hurt people, you end up conceding the entire future history of world to people on the basis of their being colonized by mind-viruses that make them the _easiest to hurt_.
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+I don't want to live in that world.
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+So here is my policy, I, Taylor Saotome-Westlake, at least on this blog, at least under this name—
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+If I say something that is later shown to me to be _factually incorrect_, that's something I take _very_ seriously, and I will do everything in my power to make it right.
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+But if, in the course of trying to say something I think is true, or insightful, or cathartic, or even just _funny_, I end up saying something that people find offensive or hurtful or disrespectful ...