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We take an argument someone actually made in public and show what it is built from: the claim, the assumptions holding it up, the places it strains, and the objections it would have to answer.
Mindwrinkles examines how an argument is built, not whether its conclusions are true.
- Animal Ethics40Weak reasoningout of 100Can killing animals for food be humane?The argument repeatedly treats contested moral and ecological assumptions as if they already proved that optional animal killing can be humane, especially by collapsing nonexistence, natural death, and non-extinction into one permissibility claim.Read
- Parenting69Fair reasoningout of 100Should you let your child win at games?The argument is strongest as a practical case for not routinely throwing games, but it stretches too far when it turns that advice into a broad developmental warning about unhappy adults.Read
- Meritocracy77Strong reasoningout of 100Does merit justify the wealth that follows it?The argument is strongest as a distinction between merit as qualification and merit as moral desert, but it remains underdeveloped on what exactly counts as deserved inequality and on whether modern meritocracy is fairly characterized as moralized wealth-worship.Read
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