> If you can't argue the counter of your own position in the most honest way possible then either you're not prepared or not honest.
I didn't say that if your position is on the opposite side of child abuse and you don't want to change your position that you aren't honest.
Yes, I'm prepared to try and make the strongest argument possible for things I may not fully understand, until I do. Whatever those things make me feel.
Sometimes the strongest arguments have large flaws (mostly moral with you examples) but sometimes we just don't understand the opposing arguments and then just create strawmen to rage against.
I'm opposed to this type of irrational emotional behaviour. It causes things like mob violence which I'm very familiar with.
So when someone can't articulate the opposing views then they need to be warned or directed to do so. If they refuse and run back to a strawmen then yes they are not honest and obviously not prepared.
uMkhonto we Sizwe was a terrorist organization. But they had a very strong argument for why terrorism was an appropriate action.
I don't say that I agree with their use of violence, but they had an argument that makes blanket statements like "terrorism is evil" harder to make.
A company is not a government... Yes, someone who owns a company has the legal right to do whatever they want, as long as it's not criminal, with their property.
They have complete authority... They don't have to have someone else endow it to them or give it to them...
So yes, they are by definition authoritarian. That's one of the cornerstones of being able to own private property.
"Do my bidding" is different from "do my bidding being paid way below market rate" or "do my bidding and I don't care if that involves a high likelihood of losing a limb".
Also, "do my bidding" should be written as "do your job."
I'm from a country with strong labor protections (striking, 3 strike dismissal etc.), and you're moving the goalposts.
That's not what I asked. If you can't argue the counter of your own position in the most honest way possible then either you're not prepared or not honest.
No, this is not uniquely American. Which country are you from that doesn't require employees to act in a way as directed by the company that employs them?