I wish every educator did this. Being a devil's advocate makes the discourse poorer and thinner and cheaper. You think you are being Robin Williams in Dead Poet's Society with some carbon copy of the socratic method. In reality, you are a Reddit reply-guy soldier an info war.
https://twitter.com/vox00_/status/1383047575608119296
Learning to evaluate arguments is a skill. Learning to teach other people how to evaluate arguments is a meta-skill. You likely do not have the skill to do that and you certainly are not doing it in the architecture of media/platforms that does not allow that kind of skill.
A few notes on invoking 1) high school debate and 2) OED. 1) Ask any teacher who ACTUALLY teaches high school debate how much prep work and management it takes to establish an environment conducive to "devil's advocate" argumentation. Then ask yourself if you do that.
2) I don't even know where to start with you.
Using the DA method of interrogation takes a lot of deep care work for it be useful. That is the part most people want to ignore, almost as if their entire reason for valuing DA is to *not* demonstrate any care...
It requires a shared understanding of terms, a great deal of social trust, and an exit plan (with after care) for reconciling new information. Leave it to folks to strip away all of that and leave behind the contrarianism and competition.
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