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I actually conclude the opposite from you in terms of the value of "conflationary alliances". I will pick on the examples you provided:
Alice ignores Bob's decent argument against eating porkchops using an appeal to authority (if we consider science to be authoritative, which I do not) or an appeal to popularity (if we consider science to be valid because of popular recognition that certain hypotheses have never been disproven). The fact that Bob and Alice are having the discussion opens the door for Bob to explain his own meaning and show Alice that, although her use of the term is exclusive to humans, she may recognize features of pigs which deepen her... (read 488 more words →)
"In a moral dilemma where you lost something either way, making the choice would feel bad either way, so you could temporarily save yourself a little mental pain by refusing to decide." From Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which I'm reading at hpmor.com. My solution is to make that dilemma more precise so that I will know which way I'd go. It nearly always requires more details than the creator of the hypothetical is willing to provide.
I am the webmaster of voluntaryist.com since I inherited it from the previous owner and friend of mine, Carl Watner. It seems to me that coercion is the single most deleterious strategy that humans... (read more)
A recommendation for avoiding these problems is to tolerate smaller versions of the problems in the interest of using the fallout to demonstrate the importance of avoiding the errors the hiding is meant to prevent. The position of any authority in this kind of matter is tenuous because they have coercion to back them up, and this causes some resistance to anything they say or do, a relatively larger portion of which is, itself hidden. See Plex's Control Vs Opening, mentioned in his comment.