Rex Kerr
Feb 21, 2024

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Comrade Morlock welcomes debate but despite writing multiple thoughtful well-supported pieces, when pressed, his "debate" performance is almost uniformly a hodgepodge of logical fallacies, failure to address points, and other forms of intellectual stonewalling. I really don't understand it, but unless you have personal experience with debating him in a case where you are more knowledgeable and informed than he is in that area, I wouldn't recommend debating him. Maybe I've gotten particularly unlucky both when talking to him and reading others try the same, but while I really appreciate his willingness to debate, in practice I haven't found him responsive to reason that he didn't come up with himself. It's a shame, because he's clearly an astute thinker, and he writes great responses to simpleminded or silly objections to his points. So one would think it should work. I just never see it.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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