• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    People do take those passages seriously. We can’t and shouldn’t adjust our speech to avoid dumb people being as dumb as they were already planning to be.

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      10 months ago

      Right, but if we’re already using a “Gotcha”, and it’s…not really as much of a “Gotcha” as we think it is…then i’m basically just saying we gotta have arguments that work on the people we’re talking to, not ourselves

      Like if anything we’re adjusting our speech to make the argument…that is going to have people perfectly willing to latch onto it seriously.