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As a counter-argument, I never liked this. Because everyone who disagrees gets silenced and even made invisible.
During covid, it was pretty much impossible to disagree that we all must be vaccinated and isolated, or suggesting that natural immunity is much better than vaccinating for younger people. Only afterwards has it become accepted as the truth. During covid, you would be called a conspiracy theorist for talking about natural immunity instead of vaccines.
Even if you don't agree with this specific point, I wanted to bring it up and show how it creates a complete echo chamber and makes sure everyone seems to agree, because people who don't are silenced.
This means most people will not see that there is another way of seeing things, and they will believe that only one solution is possible.
Same thing with war scenarios. If you don't agree there should be a war, you are called unpatriotic. So many ways people get silenced. I think we should avoid that.
Well, your COVID example is a pretty good example for how downvoting actually works for regulating communities. Because like, y'know not vaccinating young people is factually wrong and saying opinions about that were suppressed is conspiratorial thinking
Dropping that antivax example is pretty sus
Natural immunity to covid has never been accepted as better. You're still a conspiracy theorist with very dangerous things to say
Just sneak it in with some exaggerated examples no one supported and hope nobody calls you on it...