User blog comment:RaijinSenshi19/Criticism and Buddyfight/@comment-11459798-20160102061742

I actually agree with this. Like, it's really hard to accept being babied the whole way through something when, SURPRISE, the real world doesn't work that way.

"But, Gallatin, this isn't the real world!"

But are we not real people? Do we not each have our own values? Are we a giant Tumblr blog where it's just one giant safe space? No. When I modded the chat, I only stopped something after it got out of hand because sometimes we, as humans, have the ability to-

"NO, HE CAN'T SAY IT, HE MUSTN'T!"

Hush, imaginary voice in my head. We have the ability to stop ourselves. If I felt the need to intervene with something, that means it has already stepped over the boundary, and that is the reason it should be stopped, not because it could possibly, maybe, kinda, sorta interfere with someone's SAFE SPACE. You can't stop a problem before it starts because you don't know what will or will not be a problem if you just stop conversations from happening through brute force.

Just ask Russia.