Debate mapper/FRO
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Frequently Raised Objections to the Debate Mapper
- Objection: People don't use reason to arrive at their beliefs ideology: they use intuition and feeling. (Shorter: People don't think ideology, they feel it.)
- Response: Even if only a few people are willing to insist that their beliefs must be reasonable (i.e. must fit the best available evidence), the Mapper is still a vital tool for:
- weeding out disinformation
- overcoming one's own biases
- making it clear whether an opposing viewpoint has merit
- achieving consensus, especially on complex issues, more quickly and definitively
- Response: Even if only a few people are willing to insist that their beliefs must be reasonable (i.e. must fit the best available evidence), the Mapper is still a vital tool for: