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one day when talking with another REasonable person, you realize they are profoundly wrong about something you debate, but all points are expertly and validly rebuffed you struggle you strain they dodge they parry they counter-attack
you KNOW they are wrong and yet you have been bested in debate you begin to sweat you wail and gnash your teeth "that which can be destroyed by the truth should be" you flinch but what if you aren't flinching at the pain of being wrong?
you flinch because you're noticing there's a difference between ThE rUlEs Of DeBaTe and The Best Your Mind Can Do your REasonable friends don't acknowledge this you sweat because you're beginning to notice something that might make your friends lable YOU UNReasonable 😰
reasonableness is a coordination tool because you and squad have mainly used it to coordinate against baddies, u learn them as a standard for thinking when you hit the limits of this system, you will feel like you are doing a BAD THING https://t.co/fAqVP65PL7
the best forms of thinking are inherently hard to transfer/spread/communicate for societies to work there needs to be some interface/conflict-resolution mech between people "reasonable debate" i.e the approved group mech is necessarily an impoverished thinking/reasoning system