My comment:
If you can do away with the bad stuff with the stroke of a pen, why not go all the way?
To use an analogy: If you know that junk food affects your health in a negative way, why not stop eating it completely? The author suggests the equivalent of the assertion that eating some junk food has a positive effect because it increases the variety of one's food intake.
Once you limit yourself to e-prime (or to healthy food for that matter), you discover a seemingly endless number of options available within those self-chosen boundaries that others will never know about. e-prime increases both precision and variety while e-standard brings with it the exact opposite outcome.
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