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Part One · The Common Ground

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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