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Note that this community reacts badly to some topics as well.
The failing of being mind-killed by certain triggers is pretty common, and I have to give this author credit for recognizing it. I'd prefer an attempt to analyze and work with the emotional impact, to find ways to continue to discuss things where rationality is possible, rather than a set of examples that trigger this person specifically.
I do wonder if we should have a way to add trigger-warnings and filters to posts and comments. It can't be made perfect, and there are some interesting and smart people who will still not be able to participate, but it could help for those who just can't be open and tolerant of some topics. And it could perhaps allow us to explore some of WHY some topics are mind-killing to some people, and find ways to work around it rather than just avoiding the topic.
In the sense of being unfavourable to some topics, or being irrationally unfavourable to those topics?
In the same sense as the linked post: recognizing that there may be value in the discussion, but not trusting ourselves and each other to be rational enough to actually get the value in open discussion.
On one level, that's a rational reaction to our limitations in rationality. But those limits are irrational.