The sad truth is the world is so big that bad faith debaters don’t even need to make clowns. They can always hunt for real people who behave as badly as clowns, engage them and present them to a massive audience.
We evolved in small societies with 100 people or so, not massive social media sites connecting billions of people, so we have no vigilance against the deceptive power of cherrypicking (and other online shenanigans).
The sad truth is the world is so big that bad faith debaters don’t even need to make clowns. They can always hunt for real people who behave as badly as clowns, engage them and present them to a massive audience.
We evolved in small societies with 100 people or so, not massive social media sites connecting billions of people, so we have no vigilance against the deceptive power of cherrypicking (and other online shenanigans).