“But with anyone in this state of mind, I would sooner begin by teaching them that policy debates should not appear one-sided.”
I think you have to qualify this statement with “unresolved” policy debates.
I’ll take the positions:
1) another Holocaust would be a bad thing.
2) global warming is real and S.Harper and GWB are real existential risk maximizing actors.
3) the US prison economy (construction, staffing and forced prison labour), now consuming more resources than Universities in your retarded country, is a conflict of interest.
It won’t help students at all to adapt the opposite positions.
The problem with taking evil positions “just for kicks”, is that many of these positions are adapted in real life. There are a powerful (low teens percentile) political minorities in Europe and Russia that wouldn’t mind another Holocaust and would welcome more skeptical minds like EY to briefly adopt their positions. Same for oil supporters in Canada and the USA that presently run the world and are actively seek humanity’s destruction. The USA incarcerates a greater % of its population than anyone; is practically a 3rd world country. Slavery is still alive in the USA.
“unresolved” turns the above brain sharpening positions into acceptable (but still false policy positions):
1) Immigration should be reduced or union jobs should be subsidized with public funds or cultural minorities should melting pot.
2) I’m greedy and would rather consume than stabilize Earth for future generations.
3) We need retarded Republican policies to try to maintain global military hedgemony, and the Republican alliance shouldn’t be fractured; also, incarcerating Democrats prevents them from voting.
Don’t encourage malleable students to adopt evil positions, they may like it.
“But with anyone in this state of mind, I would sooner begin by teaching them that policy debates should not appear one-sided.” I think you have to qualify this statement with “unresolved” policy debates.
I’ll take the positions: 1) another Holocaust would be a bad thing. 2) global warming is real and S.Harper and GWB are real existential risk maximizing actors. 3) the US prison economy (construction, staffing and forced prison labour), now consuming more resources than Universities in your retarded country, is a conflict of interest. It won’t help students at all to adapt the opposite positions.
The problem with taking evil positions “just for kicks”, is that many of these positions are adapted in real life. There are a powerful (low teens percentile) political minorities in Europe and Russia that wouldn’t mind another Holocaust and would welcome more skeptical minds like EY to briefly adopt their positions. Same for oil supporters in Canada and the USA that presently run the world and are actively seek humanity’s destruction. The USA incarcerates a greater % of its population than anyone; is practically a 3rd world country. Slavery is still alive in the USA.
“unresolved” turns the above brain sharpening positions into acceptable (but still false policy positions): 1) Immigration should be reduced or union jobs should be subsidized with public funds or cultural minorities should melting pot. 2) I’m greedy and would rather consume than stabilize Earth for future generations. 3) We need retarded Republican policies to try to maintain global military hedgemony, and the Republican alliance shouldn’t be fractured; also, incarcerating Democrats prevents them from voting.
Don’t encourage malleable students to adopt evil positions, they may like it.