This is a bizarrely anti-democratic. "Winning" isn't the important part of discussing a topic with multiple points of view.

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tryagainian a day ago | parent | next [-]

Do you believe all points of view are equally valuable?

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hahahaa a day ago | parent | next [-]

If they are not (in a small team) you have real problems. Not everyone will be right or be happy, but their pov has value, and equally? More or less.

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jasonlotito a day ago | parent [-]

You aren't answering the question. You are reframing the question so you can give the answer you want, thereby avoiding giving the real answer to the question presented.

	▲	hahahaa 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ok my answer is yes (caveat: functional team) Reference question: "Do you believe all points of view are equally valuable?" Additional context: parent to question framed scenario as "discussing a topic"

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jodrellblank 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A low-effort comment from a new user account which I remember from this other low-effort comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734579

either you're still fat, or at 45 you should be long past boasting on the internet about your muscle gains. "SOME of the 8 billion people on Earth aren't adequately described by a system with only four outputs"? See comedian physicist Dara O'Briain saying that comedically:

"""Racism is way better than Astrology - Racism is one of the worst social evils they can imagine. “How dare you do that?” they say. "How dare you ascribe to me personality traits? You don’t even know me, but you tell me that you know me, and you know these things about me, and you say I share these personality traits with this huge group of people, and I don’t know them, you don’t know them, and you say not only do we have the same character traits, but we have some sort of common history and some common destiny, and you make all of these horrible presumptions on the back of what? On the back of a fluke of birth. How dare you do that?

What? Ooh, Capricorn.""" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhCWw0E_mVY

Come on, try commenting something more effortful, interesting, or substantial than "do you really believe <strawman they didn't say>?" or at least, something funnier? We've all got to while away the time until death arguing on the internet forever, at least give it some oomph.

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elevation a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some are more equal than others.

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josefritzishere a day ago | parent | prev [-]

No, but I also didn't say that. I'd say that some arguments are also interesting instead of right or wrong. Some people just have interesting brains. This thread is very meta.

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snootypoot a day ago | parent | prev [-]

democracy demands that a drooling idiot gets to have equal say as any genius with his vote. since there are far more drooling idiots than geniuses we can easily see why democracy has typically been so dystopian, and only seems to get worse over time.

maybe you should educate us as to why democracy like this belongs in professional settings where efficiency and correctness determine outcome and profit/ job security.

	▲	josefritzishere a day ago \| parent [-]
		Your argument assumes that all work places and all the debates within them are hierarchical, which they are not.