Step 1: Look at how emotional each side is. Step 2: Assume the less emotional side is right and the more emotional side is wrong. I first proposed this "Mellow Heuristic" three years ago, and I say it's held up well.https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/04/the_mellow_heur.html …
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Replying to @bryan_caplan
Your take disregards how people use passive aggression in disagreements. It's a very common tactic to play it overly calm, make the other person look ridiculous, anger them, and then say, oh look they must be wrong *because* they are angry. This will only lead to fallacies.
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Replying to @TheAnnaGat
Maybe it will lead to both sides trying to out-calm each other.
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Replying to @bryan_caplan @TheAnnaGat
This is already being trialled at the nation-state level in Canada.
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