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I think there's a problem with the article's rabbit:fox::rocks:hot air analogy. The rabbit and the fox "disagree" in that they are working towards conflicting goals; however, the hot air does not in anyway prevent the rock from falling nor the rock the hot air from rising. It's only analogous if you perform a bit of moral deixis; to actually make the analogy work, we would want, say, a heavy rock being carried in a baloon.
I thought it was a bad analogy too. The foxes and rabbits have conflicting goals. However the falling human and the rising hot air have mutually compatible goals which can be simultaneously satisfied. It seems like a very different situation to me. I think there was a lack of sympathetic reading here.
Generally, one should strive to criticise the strongest argument you can imagine, not a feeble characature.