Thanks for saying it was a fair reading.
I'm not sure why I found your comment that much more annoying than aelephant's. I have a hot button about being given direct orders about my internal states, so that might be it.
It's possible that practicing niceness could be a learning exercise on the way to curing nastiness, too, but we're both guessing.
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.