It is incoherent to expect me to be able to name people who disagree with me reasonably on issues & values. When I find someone's objection to my reasoning reasonable, I change my own mind on the issue & we are no longer in disagreement.
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I can find someone generally reasonable, their argument coherent & their intentions good but if we differ on an issue, it'd be nonsense to say 'Your disagreement with my argument is reasonable & yet I'm not going to change or adapt my argument in consideration of your reasoning.'
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In this case, my argument is that intersectionality - politics plus postmodern theory - is the wrong way to address social injustice. If someone comes along & makes a well-reasoned argument that it is the right way to address social injustice, I'll no longer make that argument.
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People occasionally say to me they find me reasonable but often disagree with me. I take this to mean that they think me a reasonable person generally & so follow me but that they think there are some exceptions to this. I doubt they mean 'I think you're reasonable to be wrong.'
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Similarly, I follow people because I admire their reasoning but then find myself in disagreement with one idea of theirs - God exists, national healthcare is a bad idea, Brexit is a good idea. I still think of them as reasonable but with some exceptions. This is almost everyone
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