Comment by PaulHoule
3 days ago
Feelings aren't facts but they are important for persuasion. The methods most able to create radical change are the gentlest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogerian_argument
I disagree with Rapoport's taxonomy, not least "Chinese brainwashing" in the Korean war was not Pavolivan and was rather closer to the T-group method developed in Bethel, ME.
Interesting. I often hear/read the term "steelmanning" instead, as in the opposite of constructing a straw man argument.
Reminds me of the time that I was in a class on geoengineering and was supposed to have a debate with another student about "Should we fund BECCS in Brazil or fund efforts to protect the rainforest?" (I was advocating for the first)
Two days before the debate I went to a talk about the rainforest with my debating partner, then the night before his friend was stabbed at a bar trying to break up a fight and he rode up to Syracuse in an ambulance so it turned out I was well prepared to give his presentation.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_... the economics of which are particularly good for Brazilian ethanol plants