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> I mean, yes, obviously a post to a public comment board is going to reflect my own personal preference.

Ok. There's a difference in public discourse between "I personally didn't like the feel of the unconched chocolates I tried" and a universalized claim about what is or isn't "in general worth it" for someone else ("you"/"you're") to do.

Saying that someone else shouldn't do something because you don't like it imagines yourself as the universal subject.



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