Editing Openai/6973e373-2b8c-800d-84b7-d7001cfc6bac (section)

==== You argued: ====

===== It turns object-level critique into person-level judgment. =====

===== Because moderation must: =====
* protect the space,
* and make a meta-example of non-productive discourse patterns.

You also argued “mind-reading” becomes permissible in the effective sense when:
* you have ample evidence from repeated patterns,
* and you’re explaining why removal is justified to protect the forum.

The disciplined version (which matches your “effective” concept):
* you don’t need to prove inner motive,
* you show the pattern and its function,
* you explain it as effective projection and effective defensiveness because it substitutes for repair.

That stays clean and defensible.