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Safest doesn't mean likeliest to lead to clarity and/or agreement. If I were a black man and saw a guy spewing what seems like inflammatory racist drivel, aski
by pdpi 9y ago
Safest doesn't mean likeliest to lead to clarity and/or agreement.
If I were a black man and saw a guy spewing what seems like inflammatory racist drivel, asking probing questions to better understand his position and clear up misunderstandings is all well and good, but I'd feel much safer hightailing out of there.
- the8472 9y agoAnd there would be nothing wrong with hightailing it out of there. On the other hand calling for the potentially racist drivel or potentially devil's advocate debater to be shut down because you were feeling unsafe and didn't want to try better understand his position and thus it would be better for everyone if he didn't talk at all and thus everyone could feel safer... well... that seems to be some kind of goal displacement error. It's elevating the heuristic of feeling safe over the actual outcome of avoiding real harmful events.