This was one of the first LessWrong posts I've made it all the way through, and I appreciated the journey you took your thoughts through. I like the underlying idea we can extend deeper social grace when we have a) common terms and b) ready mental models for why someone is "acting out" that doesn't beg some question to remove them. That hangry thoughts are ephemeral and easy to resolve lends to tolerance. I think that's what some commenters are latching onto when they describe this as more commonly-held: extending grace for extraneous personal circumstance... (read more)
This was one of the first LessWrong posts I've made it all the way through, and I appreciated the journey you took your thoughts through. I like the underlying idea we can extend deeper social grace when we have a) common terms and b) ready mental models for why someone is "acting out" that doesn't beg some question to remove them. That hangry thoughts are ephemeral and easy to resolve lends to tolerance. I think that's what some commenters are latching onto when they describe this as more commonly-held: extending grace for extraneous personal circumstance... (read more)