I suppose that depends on what your objectives and audience are. When I'm here I try not to do that, because there's not really any consequences for what I say here; and people here are probably somewhere in the 99th percentile of "able to hear uncomfortable/heterodox truths".
When I'm talking to a normal person sympathetic to my cause and trying to nudge him closer to my direction without losing him, sometimes I have to add a little honey to the medicine. Because I realize that I too had to start somewhere down this road, and if I knew beforehand where I'd end up taking it I might have chosen another road.
I suppose that depends on what your objectives and audience are. When I'm here I try not to do that, because there's not really any consequences for what I say here; and people here are probably somewhere in the 99th percentile of "able to hear uncomfortable/heterodox truths".
When I'm talking to a normal person sympathetic to my cause and trying to nudge him closer to my direction without losing him, sometimes I have to add a little honey to the medicine. Because I realize that I too had to start somewhere down this road, and if I knew beforehand where I'd end up taking it I might have chosen another road.