Exactly.
This pattern of "taking something unbelievable other people said, and imagining what would it mean if from their point of view it made complete sense literally, even if it creates an impolite ad-hominem argument against them" probably has a potential to create many surprising hypotheses.
It probably needs some nice short name, to remind people to use it more often.
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