>My objection has been, and continues to be with the use of "We need to ...".
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>Words have meanings:
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>1. "We": you're speaking on behalf of the reader, when you have no such authority

Some languages have the distinction between "we, including you" and "we, not including you". I don't speak any of those.

In any other language you probably don't exactly know which kind of "we" was meant. In sentences like this, I guess it is "all of us except myself".

>2. "need to": you're telling the reader what must be done. Again, with no authority
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>It that what you're trying to convey?