If you'd instead said that some people think..
That would have been fairly useless. The phrase "some people think.." can be followed by pretty much anything at all and still be true.
I am still confused by your understanding of aggression -- right now it seems to me that it means just being impolite. Let's take Alice who may or may not have some issues. Bob says "She is mentally ill". Charlie says "She is delusional and hallucinating". Duncan says "Man, she's just batshit crazy". Is it you position that Bob is fine, Charlie is mildly aggressive, and Duncan is highly aggressive?
I find it strange that you pay so much attention to the form and relatively little to the content.
that's part of what I mean by saying that LW has a conservative, not merely and anti-stupid, tilt.
Let's get a bit more precise. Does LW as a whole have such a tilt, or does your karma have such a tilt? I think you're extrapolating your personal situation a bit too much.
whereas those of the right are (1) distinctly more common and (2) generally approved by the LW community
Think of LW as a place of refuge, a "safe zone" to use an SJ term :-D A neo-reactionary who wanders into a wrong Tumblr neighbourhood will get a lot of detailed descriptions of how exactly he should die in a fire :-/
That would have been fairly useless.
From my perspective, the dilemma you face is that you could say "a lot of people think that expressing opinions that disagree with theirs constitutes aggression", which would be non-content-free but ridiculous, or you could say "some people think that some expressions of opinion constitute aggression", which would be true but almost content-free; I'm having trouble figuring out what you could have meant that would be contentful but in any way plausible.
...it seems to me that [aggression] means [to g
There are some long lists of false beliefs that programmers hold. isn't because programmers are especially likely to be more wrong than anyone else, it's just that programming offers a better opportunity than most people get to find out how incomplete their model of the world is.
I'm posting about this here, not just because this information has a decent chance of being both entertaining and useful, but because LWers try to figure things out from relatively simple principles-- who knows what simplifying assumptions might be tripping us up?
The classic (and I think the first) was about names. There have been a few more lists created since then.
Time. And time zones. Crowd-sourced time errors.
Addresses. Possibly more about addresses. I haven't compared the lists.
Gender. This is so short I assume it's seriously incomplete.
Networks. Weirdly, there is no list of falsehoods programmers believe about html (or at least a fast search didn't turn anything up). Don't trust the words in the url.
Distributed computing Build systems.
Poem about character conversion.
I got started on the subject because of this about testing your code, which was posted by Andrew Ducker.