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What I should be doing right now is working through the piles of evil T notes all around me. Therefore what I'm actually going to do is discuss them in a very pointless and high-level sorta way :)
How controversial is too controversial? At what point does expressing your opinion on a matter, particularly if it conflicts with that of the establishment in a particular field, become a... personal crusade or a vendetta rather than a healthy level of reasoned debate? Should you go beyond the point in a discussion that you needed to reach in order to achieve your goals, especially if there is no obvious gain to be made and you risk coming over as a fanatic, eroding your own credibility? On paper, our rules of society encourage us to speak up but in practice that's seldom the case, having an opinion makes you a target. Which is the better approach, sweeping statements that may well be wrong, or small steps that might not ever be noticed?
How controversial is too controversial? At what point does expressing your opinion on a matter, particularly if it conflicts with that of the establishment in a particular field, become a... personal crusade or a vendetta rather than a healthy level of reasoned debate? Should you go beyond the point in a discussion that you needed to reach in order to achieve your goals, especially if there is no obvious gain to be made and you risk coming over as a fanatic, eroding your own credibility? On paper, our rules of society encourage us to speak up but in practice that's seldom the case, having an opinion makes you a target. Which is the better approach, sweeping statements that may well be wrong, or small steps that might not ever be noticed?