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by mrcartmeneses 1458 days ago
> it exploits the listeners basic agreeableness

100%

The initial gambit is to make the reader part of a clever in-group by out-grouping “zombies”, then the writer proceeds to quickly gish-gosh a bunch of concepts that would require lots of further thought, but instead expects the reader to just go with it. You can get anywhere if you just go with it

Edit: But I do like JL on other subjects. I think it just proves the point that Plato made in the Defence of Socrates