Do you prefer a polite request with an implicit punishment-threat or an outright demand with an explicit punishment-threat? Also, why?
If I understand this correctly, the polite request is meant to be passive aggressive flattery and the outright demand is the honest tone that gets to the point. I think in written form I prefer the polite request to avoid panicking immediately. In person, I'd panic anyway. So I prefer the outright demand, because I can't handle passive aggressive attacks at all. Usually I'll reflect their politeness before I understand the matter and then when they assume that I'm not taking it seriously, they get more intense which scares me long-term.
EDIT: No, actually, forget it. I'd prefer the outright demand even in written form. I get chills when I think about encounters with passive aggressive demands...
Be honest and open. I might punch you in the face for threatening me, but you shouldn't go around threatening people now should you?
I prefer clarity.
I feel like the results/consequences are the same and that’s what I'm against.
Like you're in a slasher but pretend you're in a hallmark.
Death penalty is wrong.
Replace death with any heavy executive-issued penalty. The point here is the polite-implicit vs the impolite-explicit. (Ok i reworded it)
The point here is the polite-implicit vs the impolite-explicit.
But there is no politeness in threatening.
Who is that
Both of those are demands.