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"Less effective" at what? would seem to be the key question here.
Who is this person to you that you not only care enough to hate them, but care enough about what they think of you that you need them them to know that you hate them?
If @netstack's advice to "love thy nieghbor" curdles in your throat, instead ask yourself what would Don Draper say?
There is no particular person I have in mind (although I don't mind if people assume otherwise). The question is mostly technical, an intellectual exercise. If you want to know the real motivation behind me asking the question, it's largely this: that I believe that free speech laws should not outlaw "true threats" (i.e. people should be legally permitted to threaten each other with death, as long as they don't practice what they preach, so to speak) because if I'm right, it's trivially easy for a would-be issuer of a "true threat" to reword his message so that, while the overall psychological impact on the recipient would be nearly the same, the language used has near perfect plausible deniability.
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