I might find it insulting if someone changes my argument to something they think is a better version. There is the strawman, there is the steelman, but there is another option: the fleshman. It's when you deal with someone's actual argument, not a better or weaker version.
Hmmmm. Principle of charity is absolutely right & proper if one's aim is to get at the truth of things. But not convinced it should govern all our political interventions (online or otherwise). One concedes the terrain of rhetoric to one's opponents at peril, I reckon.
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