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An honest debater attacks the strongest points, not the weakest ones. All you've done is given the parent comment the experience to make all examples in a list
by jabgrabdthrow 11y ago
An honest debater attacks the strongest points, not the weakest ones. All you've done is given the parent comment the experience to make all examples in a list roughly equally bad.
- mikeash 11y agoThe principle of charity has nothing to do with honesty. I agree that it's generally a good idea, but it is unrelated to being "an honest debater." Maybe you should apply it yourself and respond to my strongest points instead of my weakest ones.
- pessimizer 11y ago1) Not replying exclusively to the weakest example given in a series of examples has a lot more to do with honesty than charity. 2) You only made one point, and that was the only one responded to.
- mikeash 11y ago1) How so? 2) My one point wasn't responded to at all.