Thinking about what standards you should hold yourself to when it comes to choosing rhetoric and style is also an important kind of thinking though. Like, using the phrase "it seems to me as if" habitually is a cheap way to get karma but it's also a good habit of thought. But sometimes my rhetoric is negatively reinforced when the only other option I had was in some should world where I wasn't prodromal schizohrenic and so by letting people's downvotes affect my perception of what I should or shouldn't have been able to do it's like I'm implicitly endorsing an inaccurate model of how justification should work or just how my mind is structured or how people should process justification when they have uncertainty about how others' minds are structured. Policies spring from models, and letting policies be punished based on inaccurate models is like saying it's okay to have inaccurate models. (Disclaimer: Policy debates always have fifteen trillion sides and fifteen gazillion ways to go meta, this is just one of them.)