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If you can cherry-pick your assumptions, you can reason to almost any result. Which is a tactic for manipulating people to change their beliefs that I see ofte
by palmotea 1y ago
If you can cherry-pick your assumptions, you can reason to almost any result.
Which is a tactic for manipulating people to change their beliefs that I see often: don't argue for your position directly, but focus on more distant propositions that your target isn't as guarded about.
- dusted 1y agoGranted. I didn't mean this as a complete framework, only as an additional perspective or "mod" to amend the weakest part of Benetar's asymmetry. Also, I'm not personally interested in changing peoples views, only to contribute the idea of value-null, or that the discussion really ends with the existing.