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This flowchart pretty clearly belongs to the crimethink police. On the other hand it might be useful, to chart how establishment footsoldiers would deal with an unacceptable position—you can think of your own example—while still imagining that they were the ones being rational. The basic problems are (1) use of the passive voice ("if one of your arguments is shown...") which invites appeals to (mainstream) authority, and (2) nothing about the burden of proof ("Provide evidence for your position.") Well, if my position is that the moon is made of rocky material and not of cheese, then the burden of bringing evidence to bear should probably fall on the pro-cheese party...
It would be easy to show how the bad guys use this chart to silence or neuter popular "conservatives" like say Bill O'Reilly:
1. Argument: You, O'Reilly, are a racist.
2. Rule 1 from the flow chart: You, Bil, may not introduce new arguments while another argument has yet to be resolved—you racist.
3: Rule 3 from the flow chart: You, Bill must provide evidence for the proposition that you are not a racist.
Etc,etc,etc.
This flowchart pretty clearly belongs to the crimethink police. On the other hand it might be useful, to chart how establishment footsoldiers would deal with an unacceptable position—you can think of your own example—while still imagining that they were the ones being rational. The basic problems are (1) use of the passive voice ("if one of your arguments is shown...") which invites appeals to (mainstream) authority, and (2) nothing about the burden of proof ("Provide evidence for your position.") Well, if my position is that the moon is made of rocky material and not of cheese, then the burden of bringing evidence to bear should probably fall on the pro-cheese party...
It would be easy to show how the bad guys use this chart to silence or neuter popular "conservatives" like say Bill O'Reilly:
1. Argument: You, O'Reilly, are a racist.
2. Rule 1 from the flow chart: You, Bil, may not introduce new arguments while another argument has yet to be resolved—you racist.
3: Rule 3 from the flow chart: You, Bill must provide evidence for the proposition that you are not a racist.
Etc,etc,etc.