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I approve of downvoting gratuitous crudeness, crude terminology and slang. I do not think that any of these things help make people's beliefs more reasonable. And I think it is quite plausible that they make people's beliefs less reasonable, in much the way that some people say that dirt and immorality have a real association.
Why do you think slang is a problem?
I can see down-voting the comment under discussion because it includes a gratuitous insult, but that's a slightly different issue.
Well, I don't know that slang is a problem, but I think it is likely to be one.
This gives me reason to think that using slang is either likely to help people think more rationally, or to cause a slight tendency to think less rationally. Given actually existing correlations, at least those that I perceive, I think the latter more likely than the former.