State it fairly

Steelmanning is the opposite of a straw man. You state the other person's reasons in a form they would accept, then answer that form. Confucius has a smaller version of the same habit: when he walks with two others, he takes their good points as a model and their bad points as a warning. It is not agreement. It is a refusal to win against a cartoon. The argument builder on this site is the same exercise with boxes: premises, conclusion, and what is missing. Fill in their side first.

“When I walk with two others, they can serve me as teachers. I pick out their good qualities and follow them, and their bad qualities and avoid them.”

Confucius · Confucianism

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Mini check

Which move most strengthens "the path is slippery, so the race should start later"?

A later start would let the path dry and lower the risk.The organiser once lost a race, and that is the reason.Races of this kind are traditional, and that is enough.A photo of another path, in another country, is offered.

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Open the argument builder and write the other side in a form they would sign, then answer that.

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