When I am arguing a position that is strongly socially accepted, I have an exceptional burden of care in making and proving my arguments, because my critics may not be allowed to speak up. In normatively neutral discourse, I can afford to be wrong, because others will correct me.
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Yes - this is the kind of advice that everybody should first follow oneself. It's easy to deceive oneself & to forget the different kinds of filter bubbles we live in. It often takes an outsider's view to uncover biases Society isn't aware of and to ask fundamental questions.
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Being an outsider does not prevent us from having moral preferences. I think we must look from outside the universe if we are thinking clearly.
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