If the other side is not amenable to good faith rationale, its usually easily identifiable rapidly, say for the small population that are hyper trained for 'clo

If the other side is not amenable to good faith rationale, its usually easily identifiable rapidly, say for the small population that are hyper trained for 'cloak and dagger' type operations, in which case you practice zero trust paired with due diligence verification. The big value add to steel manning is that you can persuade yourself that your own ideas may infact be the inferior one and more concretely explain why that is the case to other people. Oh but shoot, cats dont speak English. Nevermind, dont try and use steelman technique against my cat Luna.