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The whole argument the article makes is that societal pressure is good and should influence your vote.
..Not sure about that one. I don't see an issue with this ad at all.
You have my sympathy, I used to be the exact same person as you politically. Play the ball, not the player, and all that. I learned the hard way that for populist authoritarians, people like us are marks, suckers. Plain as that. Today it's vote your conscience, tomorrow it's think what your family would say. Today it's "free speech absolutism", tomorrow all the dissenters get deplatformed for the greater good. Whatever can sound reasonable and promote their agenda that Tuesday.
Considering a "reasonable" appeal they make in isolation, outside the context of their overall goals and values, is exactly what they want you to do. A separate bubble reality for each day, for each issue, for each political scuffle, where they get to pick what ethical values to emphasize and what moral high ground to manufacture. They're happy as long as you don't see the big picture and don't ask yourself questions like "wait... do these people actually believe in individualism? That I should do what I want with my life regardless of what anyone else has to say about it? How important has that value been to them historically?"