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How are you determining what people (strangers) "already believe"?


Epistemologically you can't be completely sure, but when someone's discourse is habitually interwoven with rhetorical gambits and logical fallacies it's not unreasonable to conclude that they're actually a bullshit artist.


Talking to them on the internet/real life over the past ten years


To me, that feels like a broad brush and lazy way to shut down any uncomfortable conversation. If you find it works for you, more power to you




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