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Well, that Bottom Line is generated by your intuition, and your intuition is probably pretty good at weighing evidence to find a good Bottom Line (with the caveat that your intuition probably does a lot more signalling than truth-seeking). In principle, though, that means that you don't have to justify that bottom line, at least not as much; instead, it would be more productive to search for flaws. The most likely flaw is that your subconcious figured "My friends like this conclusion" rather than "This conclusion is true".
This, and more. Statements don't come pre-labeled as premise or conclusion. All evidential relations are bidirectional. For example, if two statements are inconsistent, logic tells you not to accept both. But it doesn't tell you which one (s) to reject.