[alphazard]

> We don’t talk much about this, because if the people on Team Overboard were honest about who they plan to purge, none of their intended victims would be friends with them, let alone vote for them.

It's hard to take the piece seriously after that. Obviously a mischaracterization of the group he refers to as "Team Overboard".

A steelman would look something like: "On the other team, they are indifferent as to whether people they don't know find a place for themselves. They are confident that all people they would want to potentially know will find places for themselves."

Because that actually matches some commonly espoused philosophies. On the other hand, I've never heard anyone seriously call for a purge of undesirables, which is what the author claims.

[nuancebydefault]

I've heard several people say that we are too many on this planet. Mostly older people tend to agree with this. For the record, I'm not one of them. Hence for those people there has to be a set of people belonging to the overboard side.