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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Apparently now, no one can discuss the thing that got me modded. So there's little chance of the subject coming up again.

That specific subject, no. Discussions in which your overall mindset will get you into trouble if you don't adjust it? That's more likely.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I wouldn't do that over GameFAQs' PM service. I vaguely recall a notion that someone got modded for sharing a moderation over PM.

You can get modded for sharing moddable content of any sort over a PM, but the only way for that to happen is if the recipient marks you. It'd be a pretty massive dick move of me to invite you to PM me something then mark you for it, such that you could easily get me penalized pretty heavily for trolling if I did such a thing. Pinky swear promise, I won't mark it. I do genuinely believe you're trying to understand and you're just having trouble connecting the dots, not that you're actually trying to be malicious, so if I can help you connect the dots, that's a win in my books.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Well that's just it, isn't it? I have no way of knowing how unassailable it is if I can't discuss it.

That line of thinking is exactly why I say you shouldn't be proud of your consistency: If you can't refine your own opinions by trying to assail them yourself, you aren't thinking critically about the subject. You're deciding on a position, then waiting for somebody else to put in the legwork to prove you wrong.

Getting other people's input through debate is very helpful for refining positions, yes, but you are far from being without options if you can't debate them. You can gather information yourself and conduct your own tests of your hypotheses to see if they hold up. That just requires you to actually be open-minded enough to accept that your first belief might be wrong, which is something you seem to struggle with (and, to be fair, a lot of people struggle with that to some extent or another).