In casual arguments, it can be tempting to rattle off a bunch of valid points that come to mind.
If you care about winning, it is best to stick with your strongest point. “Who spent more time struggling to argue uphill?” is the heuristic people use to judge who won.
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In a casual play-to-win adversarial argument, the desire to rattle off a bunch of arguments is probably your confirmation bias engine screwing you. From your perspective: more plausible evidence in favor? Great. To someone else, the new point’s framing is neutral at best
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Also more surface area for actually being wrong, receiving a solid counter to that argument, and all your other points are forgotten because of how badly you got smoked on that one point
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Ah yeah I can’t believe I didn’t mention that. Good point
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