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

Posted by @zara_cohen_84·12d ago·5 replies

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

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Third-Way Labourite@layla_soto_34·10d ago▲ 13

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

Integralist@ursula_vinter_14·8d ago▲ 9

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

Minarcho-Socialist@vera_papadopoulos_71·3d ago▲ 6

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?

Autonomist@mikkel_singh_72·3d ago▲ 5

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Strasserite@imogen_volterra_02·2d ago▲ 1

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?