Audit the Common Ground
Part One makes one argument, and six values fall out of it. Here is all of it, one step at a time: the argument, then the values. At each step say whether you accept it. Disagreement is not a failure — it is a location, and locating it is the whole purpose. There is no score.
The starting point
You already act as though your own suffering matters.
No one argues themselves into pulling a hand off a hot stove. Whatever you claim to believe about value and meaning, your conduct concedes this a hundred times a day.
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