You conclude that the vast majority of critics of your extremist idea are really wildly misinformed, somewhat cruel or uncaring, and mostly hate your idea for pre-existing social reasons.
This updates you to think that your idea is probably more correct.
This step very straightforwardly doesn’t follow, doesn’t seem at all compelling. Your idea might become probably more correct if critics who should be in a position to meaningfully point out its hypothetical flaws fail to do so. It says almost nothing about your idea’s correctness what the people who aren’t prepared or disposed to critique your idea say about it. Perhaps unwillingness of people to engage with it is evidence for its negative qualities, which include incorrectness or uselessness, but it’s a far less legible signal, and it’s not pointing in favor of your idea.
A major failure mode though is that the critics are often saying something sensible in their own worldview, which is built on premises and framings quite different from those of your worldview, and so their reasoning makes no sense within your worldview and appears to be making reasoning errors or bad faith arguments all the time. And so a lot of attention is spent on the arguments, rather than on the premises and framings. It’s more productive to focus on making the discussion mutually intelligible, with everyone learning towards passing everyone else’s ideological Turing test. Actually passing is unimportant, but learning towards that makes talking past each other less of a problem, and cruxes start emerging.
This step very straightforwardly doesn’t follow, doesn’t seem at all compelling. Your idea might become probably more correct if critics who should be in a position to meaningfully point out its hypothetical flaws fail to do so. It says almost nothing about your idea’s correctness what the people who aren’t prepared or disposed to critique your idea say about it. Perhaps unwillingness of people to engage with it is evidence for its negative qualities, which include incorrectness or uselessness, but it’s a far less legible signal, and it’s not pointing in favor of your idea.
A major failure mode though is that the critics are often saying something sensible in their own worldview, which is built on premises and framings quite different from those of your worldview, and so their reasoning makes no sense within your worldview and appears to be making reasoning errors or bad faith arguments all the time. And so a lot of attention is spent on the arguments, rather than on the premises and framings. It’s more productive to focus on making the discussion mutually intelligible, with everyone learning towards passing everyone else’s ideological Turing test. Actually passing is unimportant, but learning towards that makes talking past each other less of a problem, and cruxes start emerging.