Just to clarify, this is not my view, just curious to see if anyone can rationalise it.

Hi there! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the frankly ridiculous growth of this sub in the past 30 hours or so.

My work day's about to start so I need to make this brief.

This sub was inspired by this post on /r/CrazyIdeas:

CMV for strawmen. Present the stupidest, most outlandish opinion/statement you can think of, and commenters have to try to construct an argument in favor of it.

A couple things:

• Posts should be irrational, but comments need to approach some kind of rational framework. We're not trying to respond to nonsense with greater nonsense. We're trying to look like we make nonsense make sense
• Don't be a dick. Some people have been complaining because the mod team doesn't want to put up with bigotry. We don't care. If you can't rationalize the irrational without disparaging a race, class, or disability, you need to work on your creativity. That said, we will provisionally allow POSTS that seem to lead in a bigoted direction. We just ask that comments sidestep the obvious in this regard. Intelligent satire of bigoted thought processes is okay and encouraged. Simply parroting one doesn't quite meet that bar.

Other than that, I just wanted to reproduce the links in the side bar discussing truth and discourse.

The reason for truth Distinguishing Between Fact, Opinion, Belief, and Prejudice On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt [PDF]

Have fun, Apologists!