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Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
by narzu 8y ago
Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- eridius 8y agoNo. "Iron manning" is stupid, it's just an excuse to dismiss a response because they weren't charitable enough towards your flawed argument. Strawmanning is bad too of course. But responding to a reasonable interpretation (which is distinct from "iron manning"'s demand of responding to the strongest possible interpretation) is how discourse normally works. If someone's reasonable interpretation of your argument doesn't match what you were trying to convey, then that means you fucked up your argument. In this particular case, the parent's argument is literally that Facebook is justified in not rejecting the political ads because senators are likely to buy ads. So that's what I responded to.