I agree that motte-and-bailey would be a much better meme in the world where it were applied to individuals rather than groups 90+% of the time. I think it would still be a pretty bad meme in those worlds, for reasons related to Hazard’s comment and my pro-hypocrisy stance. I also think it’s plausibly a lot harder to stop people from applying “motte and bailey” to groups than to discourage the “motte and bailey” framing altogether.
I agree that motte-and-bailey would be a much better meme in the world where it were applied to individuals rather than groups 90+% of the time. I think it would still be a pretty bad meme in those worlds, for reasons related to Hazard’s comment and my pro-hypocrisy stance. I also think it’s plausibly a lot harder to stop people from applying “motte and bailey” to groups than to discourage the “motte and bailey” framing altogether.