Sometimes, I ruffle a few (although, never too many) feathers when I hold puritans to account.

It's not something I enjoy doing. In fact it can be the very opposite, particularly when I am disappointed in someone I quite like.

In fact, sometimes, the more annoyed I am, the more I like someone and I feel betrayed, and I've dealt with a certain amount of bullshit on this Internet.

Puritanical ideologies tend to be abusive in nature and coercive. The boundaries of what are indecent also have a tendency of shifting.

Puritanism is associated with psychological harms, hateful ideologies (in particular, angry ideologies), human rights violations, and other negative things.

So, to me, it is kind of a big deal. Perhaps, puritans are silly, however, it is not *merely* that they are silly.

It is also useful to consider that puritanism is not always stereotypically obvious.

In fact, one infamous right wing group (which used to blame gay people for mass shootings not that long ago), run by Mormons, started speaking the language of "feminism" to try to promote it.

New language. Same ideology. Just as flawed.

It was this group which was responsible for Steam removing all kinds of sexual content. It was this group who was responsible for Reddit doing so. It was this group which is partially behind these "age verification" proposals in legislatures.