The following submission statement was provided by /u/Galactus_Jones762:

TLDR: align values before discussing feasibility. If you don’t start out the debate with the same or similar values or desired outcomes, there’s no point in wasting time discussing feasibility, which will become a circular mess of motivated reasoning. We talk too much about what will work without even taking the simple step of discussing what we want.

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