A framework for productive political discussion(discourse.shwin.co) |
A framework for productive political discussion(discourse.shwin.co) |
- Do not summarize the opposing point of view beyond the other person's statements.
That one always seems to be the start of a mess. Folks showing up with "I was told..." and so on and it's always some dishonest BS.
> The great Karl Popper often started a discussion with an unerring representation of his opponent’s positions, often exhaustive, as if he were marketing them as his own ideas, before proceeding to systematically dismantle them. Also, take Hayek’s diatribes Contra Keynes and Cambridge: it was a “contra,” but not a single line misrepresents Keynes or makes an overt attempt at sensationalizing.