Then it’s “debate or don’t”, not “debate or update”, which is completely different. You didn’t operationalize the penalty for refusing to debate even when you “have to” under your norm, so I was defaulting to “update” from the maxim you opened with. Both the menacing penalty of “update” and the baseline inconvenience of “debate” can be worse than taking the reputational damage (provided the Alices are allowed to speak, which isn’t truly a given), depending on the claim.
Ok. (From my POV that’s a rather uninteresting way to engage with what I wrote, as it is a butterfly idea and the stag you’re hunting seems to be different from the stag I’m hunting here.)
Then it’s “debate or don’t”, not “debate or update”, which is completely different. You didn’t operationalize the penalty for refusing to debate even when you “have to” under your norm, so I was defaulting to “update” from the maxim you opened with. Both the menacing penalty of “update” and the baseline inconvenience of “debate” can be worse than taking the reputational damage (provided the Alices are allowed to speak, which isn’t truly a given), depending on the claim.
Ok. (From my POV that’s a rather uninteresting way to engage with what I wrote, as it is a butterfly idea and the stag you’re hunting seems to be different from the stag I’m hunting here.)