> Most people are not idiots. If they disagree with you, it's probably not because they are being irrational, but because they're starting from a different prem

> Most people are not idiots. If they disagree with you, it's probably not because they are being irrational, but because they're starting from a different premise, making different assumptions, or assigning different values to different aspects of the problem I agree with the spirit of what you're saying, but I think you're conflating two orthogonal dimensions. There is someone's level of intelligence, and there is the degree to which they have different starting assumptions to you on the topic.