fubarobfusco comments on Open thread, Dec. 8 - Dec. 15, 2014 - Less Wrong
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Doesn't this line of thinking pretty much end up portraying a sort of sociopathic troll — a person who possess no values of his or her own, but who is able to provoke to anger anyone who has values — as the ideal?
The ideal debater is probably not the ideal person
Oh, I agree. And I don't think we should conclude very much about the value of the Enlightenment from the fact that it's easy to troll David Brin.