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by Nursie 1601 days ago
> What if we really wanted to understand what was going on in a way that accounted for all the facts and their various frames and interpretations?

Then we are demonstrating a level of good faith and interest that seems missing in most discourse.

I like the drive behind this - to really get to the bottom of things and promote rational comprehension rather than have people simply sniping at each other with misunderstood datapoints - but I'm not sure a lot of the people who are engaging in such behaviour are really that interested. As mentioned in the article, what they are really after is ammunition.

Still, I welcome this, as it's far better than just throwing up our collective hands and deciding any attempt to improve the quality of public discussion is necessarily censorship.