JGWeissman comments on Catchy Fallacy Name Fallacy (and Supporting Disagreement) - Less Wrong
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It is really easy to give yourself too much slack when checking these things in your own head. Actually committing your justification to a public comment that others can scrutinize helps to honestly evaluate your own position.
Further, though it can be reasonable to present a position without support when no disagreement is expected, in the case of a counterargument, there is already disagreement, which you should attempt to resolve by presenting your actual reasons for holding your position.
A large part of my motivation for this post was to encourage this behavior.