[Spivak]

Literally everyone was talking about it, making exactly the same point you are now. People parroting this take was basically all of social media for a week.

You’re not uncovering some logical inconsistency in liberal logic any more than “oh you’re pro-life, but you support the death penalty hmmmmmm” does for conservatives. This shit spreads like wildfire because it sounds like a gotcha but it relies on putting words in someone else’s mouth and then calling them a hypocrite for something they didn’t say.

If you can’t come up with a single good faith argument for why someone might want to restrict guns but not cars then you don’t really understand the opposing stance and you’re not equipped to actually have this debate. Being able to articulate the opposing stance in a way the other side would agree with then explaining why you believe it’s wrong is the only way to not talk past one another.

[guythedudebro]

Well put.

People should be taught about Strawmanning and Steelmanning in elementary school, sad to see it needs teaching on HN