Steelmanning your opponents in debate.

theHating
theHating: We are all familiar with how people can strawman your arguments.

This is basically an attempt to misrepresent your opponents argument to explain how it is wrong.

I think it's intellectually lazy to do it.

I think it is the reason chatters have such a hard time getting along.

Why don't you try to regard your opponent's argument better than he originally thought it: steelman.
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