Comment by Nevermark
6 months ago
> It's often easy to anticipate the criticism to your point.
You can head off a lot of criticism by not making your point competitive with other reasonable points. I.e. additive to understanding, not subtractive.
Otherwise, you are actually creating the competition between points that you wanted to avoid. And creating your own distractions from your own point.
But ideas are not always additive. It's okay that ideas are competitive and it's okay to try and shut down bad ideas. Easy to find examples. If someone was proposing to extinguish a group of people, would you try to "add" to the conversation?