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I'll critique his prose on efficiency grounds. He wastes many words making a point.

Let's stop policing speech, alright? You can use as many words as you want to express your views. I personally would not use the same words he might use, but let's not be hypocrites and say that none of us have written an angry or frustrated response to something that we think is stupid and just plain wrong.

I posit that there is no policing here. By what definition is there policing?

Speech is a topic of discussion just like anything else under the sun.

(And also: People here have no authority or power to police anything.)

I did use as many words as I wanted.

You can take as many steps as you want to get to the mailbox too. And you'll be taking more steps if you detour to go sniff dog shit. Going in a straight line solves two problems - it's faster and it smells better.

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