The control of speech needed to take that stabbing off the table is excessive.
Real conversations do involve real people who will do real things.
What I put here works.
I have done it with a gun pointed right at my chest, loaded, cocked.
That is no joke. And I could argue I had better tools to work with than the father did. Odds are favorable to me in that case too.
I have a solid set of intense experiences and some training in this area to draw on too. Did the father?
Maybe he should have those things. I would gladly fund them as part of my taxes. Money well spent. While at it, mandatory, blanket gun education would do a lot of good too, and in similar ways, for similar reasons, by way of similie here.
To me, bringing up one ugly fail amidst a sea of successes is counterproductive.
It is also rooted in fear of risks.
With people, speech, there are always risks.
Empowering people, doing more early human work will do more to break down those risks than taking a bludgeon to speech will.
Just one of a few reasons I felt it better to just step away.
We may just have to go through a draconian cycle here. I am not happy about that. And it will not play out like well meaning people think.
And I will be there at the peak to assist with the move back.