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So by that reasoning, if I'm frustrated about global warming and I share an article without reading it I'm spreading propaganda?

And committing violence?

I don't think so.

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If you are doing it primarily out of frustration, without reading the articles, and merely out of a desire to "put it in other people's faces", then yes.

Motivation matters. I may care deeply about the environment but if I act from a place of wanting to coerce others, I sow seeds of resistance to the very thing I am trying to achieve.

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