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Comment author: ChristianKl 29 June 2016 10:42:57AM 1 point [-]

Being a believer in X inherently means, for a rationalist, that you think there are no good arguments against X.

No, http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_onesided/

In high level debating at the debating world championship the participants are generally able to give good arguments for both sides of every issue.