FWIW, I regular downvoted your top comment because I find the quote and article misleading, unfair and contemptuously dismissive (as I explained in my comments), but haven’t downvoted any of your other comments and haven’t used strong downvotes. I didn’t find others’ arguments on this post against person-affecting views objectionable like this, even though I ultimately disagree with them and in some cases pointed out where I think they’re inaccurate/generalize too much in replies.
I also think the article you shared raises a lot of reasonable arguments against person-affecting views.
Still, I can see why someone might downvote some of your other responses, although I think strong downvotes are too harsh. Mainly, I think your responses misunderstood and/or strawmanned the criticisms as being just about disagreement with the article’s conclusions or specific claims (or what they would be if better qualified as opinion, in some cases), and you basically responded “if you don’t like it, do your own thing somewhere else”, but in civil terms. Rather than just disagreements with claims/conclusions, it’s the way some claims are framed that we take issue with, specifically dismissively, condescendingly and/or contemptuously, and treating controversial claims as uncontroversial fact. (And I’ve raised other concerns with the article besides these.)
There’s also the mirroring of our sentences you did, which I find a bit mocking, i.e. “It seems (...) you’re conflating” and “Surely those sympathetic to (...), myself included, don’t agree.”
FWIW, I regular downvoted your top comment because I find the quote and article misleading, unfair and contemptuously dismissive (as I explained in my comments), but haven’t downvoted any of your other comments and haven’t used strong downvotes. I didn’t find others’ arguments on this post against person-affecting views objectionable like this, even though I ultimately disagree with them and in some cases pointed out where I think they’re inaccurate/generalize too much in replies.
I also think the article you shared raises a lot of reasonable arguments against person-affecting views.
Still, I can see why someone might downvote some of your other responses, although I think strong downvotes are too harsh. Mainly, I think your responses misunderstood and/or strawmanned the criticisms as being just about disagreement with the article’s conclusions or specific claims (or what they would be if better qualified as opinion, in some cases), and you basically responded “if you don’t like it, do your own thing somewhere else”, but in civil terms. Rather than just disagreements with claims/conclusions, it’s the way some claims are framed that we take issue with, specifically dismissively, condescendingly and/or contemptuously, and treating controversial claims as uncontroversial fact. (And I’ve raised other concerns with the article besides these.)
There’s also the mirroring of our sentences you did, which I find a bit mocking, i.e. “It seems (...) you’re conflating” and “Surely those sympathetic to (...), myself included, don’t agree.”