Arguing from unique experience (e.g. "you don't know what it's like as a woman/hindu/farmer") benefits from it being hard to refute. It's a claim that the view naturally results from circumstance, and the only reason you don't agree is lack of exposure to that circumstance.
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inevitable and specially derived from your unique experience can end up trapping you in your current frame, as it removes responsibility from you for believing it and instead feels like some sort of truth eminating from your environment.
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Another candidate refutation (or rebuttal anyway) is symmetric: "well you don't know what it's like to be a [something the speaker is but "you" are not] either. Big deal."
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This can be taken all the way down, like turtles. I have an identical twin brother, yet his experience is still different enough to mine to warrant this line of reasoning
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