Probably worth articulating: I really dislike arguing. By the time we've gotten down to anything that feels remotely like arguing it feels to me like we've already lost our shot at making any real progress.
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This is a real example. It turned out the person in question was afraid that Jordan Peterson might be right about some stuff that his friends and family disagreed about, and that if he believed that stuff they might all reject him.
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Circling / AR culture calls getting this level of detail about what's going on for someone "getting someone's world." Mutual world-getting is a million times more fun, educational, connecting, meaningful, etc. than arguing. Once you see it there's no going back, really.
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And unfortunately there's mostly not enough cultural context to do it online, as far as I can tell. I imagine most people would just be weirded out. The level of questioning you need to do it might seem invasive, and most people aren't good enough at introspection anyway.
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I massively support this message. Sorry for semantics, but is there more value in making a new term for this ideal vs defining "unhealthy argument" and "healthy argument"? I'm used to the latter, e.g. the 5th virtue of
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Agh, so this is complicated, but I approximately think "healthy argument" is still bad for more subtle reasons. You can be healthily argued into believing that some position makes a lot of sense without being moved to do anything with it.
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