[mtraven]

This hits the nail on the head. Alexander has a horror of power struggles and wants to believe they can all be rplaced with debate, but that simply doesn't work.

He addresses this somewhat meta-level issue in his posts on Conflict vs. Mistake: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/

(and I try and tear it apart here: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2018/03/conflict-theory.h... )