I don’t mean to imply that I couldn’t see evidence that persuaded me that this concern had been mediated sufficiently. But silencing and intimidating into being quiet is a problem that self-reinforces — when it’s happening, it stops you from learning about it, and about anything else bad that’s happening. So I think it’s important to take a much more hardline stance against it than with other norm-violations even if the two norm-violations caused a similar amount of damage.
I don’t mean to imply that I couldn’t see evidence that persuaded me that this concern had been mediated sufficiently. But silencing and intimidating into being quiet is a problem that self-reinforces — when it’s happening, it stops you from learning about it, and about anything else bad that’s happening. So I think it’s important to take a much more hardline stance against it than with other norm-violations even if the two norm-violations caused a similar amount of damage.