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[Forgeties79]

He is talking about abortion writ large, not the relative risk of a specific medication. He’s even making an appeal to the “heart beat rule.”

[true_religion → Forgeties79]

When writing my comment, I did think to myself that the commenter might be biased, but it was borderline.

So I deliberately chose to steel-man the argument.

They are of course free to destroy their credibility and end civil discussion, but I didn't want to do it for them.

[Forgeties79 → true_religion]

> So I deliberately chose to steel-man the argument.

Please don’t do that. This isn’t a debate team sparring session.

[true_religion → Forgeties79]

I was under the impression that on HN you were obligated to assume the best possible argument, instead of the worst.

Am I wrong?