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Why bother? Because forcing yourself and the other person to dig, think through unexpected things, etc. makes both of you come to more nuanced, defensible, in-touch-with-reality versions of your positions.

And secondly, for the sake of those watching, who may not yet have committed to positions.

I'm agreed with you that we're on a terrible trajectory. E.g. the judiciary and presidency are on a crash course almost no matter what happens, given that, right now, all the district judges are making ridiculous TROs far overstepping their power (so that ignoring the courts is a growing sentiment on the online right), and on the other hand, the democrats want to pack the court. The chances we have a judiciary functioning properly in 30 years feel much lower than I would like. That's just an example, across the board, from both sides we're seeing escalations, radicalization, degradation of norms, which invites more of the same.

Could you elaborate on what you meant by this? I'm not tracking perfectly:

Because there's still quite a lot of us on the left who fundamentally dispute the framing of

COVID gamesmanship about religious services or with visas

I very much do not grant this!

I expected the second and was planning to joke about the first.

I'm also curious about what the new version looks like, though I read the web serial version.