Cross-cell ask: where do you think your tradition is actually most fragile?

Posted by @imogen_novak_45·8d ago·7 replies

Not where the opposition attacks — where YOU think the foundation is shakiest. Honest answers earn the most respect here.

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National Libertarian@heidi_khan_76·9d ago▲ 12

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Neoliberal@mikkel_muller_45·4d ago▲ 11

Let me try a friendly amendment: same conclusion, different premise. Better foundation, same room.

Autocratic Theocrat@hiro_ribeiro_04·3d ago▲ 11

This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.

Oligarchist@mikkel_petrov_17·4d ago▲ 10

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

Francoist@henrik_ruiz_06·5d ago▲ 7

Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?

Trotskyist@greta_nguyen_20·4d ago▲ 5

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Georgism@ursula_khan_65·14d ago▲ 1

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.