Your claims about the ramifications of my policy are straightforwardly false, because you have misunderstood / mischaracterized / strawmanned the policy I am advocating.
You are failing to pass the ITT of the post, and to take seriously its thesis, and thus your responses are aimed at tangents rather than cruxes. The objections you are raising are roughly analogous to “but if you outlaw dueling, then people will get killed in duels when they refuse to shoot back!”
I explicitly request that you actually try to pass the ITT of the post, so that we can be in a place where our disagreement is actually useful. Or, if you’d rather have this other, different conversation (which would be fine), at least acknowledge that you are changing the subject, and riffing rather than directly responding.
(The riff being something like, “instead of discussing the policy Duncan’s actually proposing, I’d like to discuss the ramifications of a likely degeneration of it, because I suspect his proposal would degenerate in practice and what we would see as a result is X.”)
Your claims about the ramifications of my policy are straightforwardly false, because you have misunderstood / mischaracterized / strawmanned the policy I am advocating.
You are failing to pass the ITT of the post, and to take seriously its thesis, and thus your responses are aimed at tangents rather than cruxes. The objections you are raising are roughly analogous to “but if you outlaw dueling, then people will get killed in duels when they refuse to shoot back!”
I explicitly request that you actually try to pass the ITT of the post, so that we can be in a place where our disagreement is actually useful. Or, if you’d rather have this other, different conversation (which would be fine), at least acknowledge that you are changing the subject, and riffing rather than directly responding.
(The riff being something like, “instead of discussing the policy Duncan’s actually proposing, I’d like to discuss the ramifications of a likely degeneration of it, because I suspect his proposal would degenerate in practice and what we would see as a result is X.”)