Yeah, that’s true. Still, in the process of such arguing, he could run into an individual point that he couldn’t think of a good argument against. At that moment, I could see him being tempted to say “Hmm, all right, that’s a fair point”, then thinking about HR asking him to explain why he posted that, and instead resorting to “Your fearmongering is hurting people”. (I think the name is “argument from consequences”.)
Yeah, that’s true. Still, in the process of such arguing, he could run into an individual point that he couldn’t think of a good argument against. At that moment, I could see him being tempted to say “Hmm, all right, that’s a fair point”, then thinking about HR asking him to explain why he posted that, and instead resorting to “Your fearmongering is hurting people”. (I think the name is “argument from consequences”.)