Well, I'm not going to bother arguing your analogy. For a cop, a teacher, a parent, a boss, a moderator or whatever, sometimes authority needs to be asserted (sometimes not). Depends entirely on the context, but that likelihood jumps dramatically when that authority is challenged. Not surprisingly, a criminal, student, child, employee or forumite are liable to have a different opinion on whether that's true when it concerns them. In any case, everyone knows we don't use "overwhelming force" even if we don't always, absolutely, utterly, 100% of the time wear plastic smiles and detail our every action.
Since you're not discussing specifics, I can't answer specifics. Despite some intelligent comments on the benefits of dialogue, frankly I'm still not even really sure what the gripe is. Apparently one or two threads were closed that someone wanted to stay open? Is that it?
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