I find this article amusing. I think it puts forward something interesting but frame it completely incorrectly.
The author doesn't actually want to lose debates even if it doesn't seem to realise it. He doesn't want to have debates at all. He just wants to have conversations with people and less preconceptions. That's something I'm completely in line with. I believe we suffer as a society from a collective excess of opinions.
The funny thing is that even when he tries to describe is prejudice in an unprejudiced way, he horribly fails at it.
I agree he frames it incorrectly, but he has not failed in terms of results. If he framed it as "I want to talk to people", it would not be posted on HN, and no one would be visiting his site or discussing his shower thought.
It's not really healthy to view such a thing as success, unless your goal is to become good at bullshitting people (as opposed to creating lasting things of value that you can be proud of). Lots of great projects show up in HN and receive no views. On the other hand lots of self promoters who say nothing imortant get tons of views. Ideally you'd want to be in the middle, where you made something awesome and were good at promoting it.
The author doesn't actually want to lose debates even if it doesn't seem to realise it. He doesn't want to have debates at all. He just wants to have conversations with people and less preconceptions. That's something I'm completely in line with. I believe we suffer as a society from a collective excess of opinions.
The funny thing is that even when he tries to describe is prejudice in an unprejudiced way, he horribly fails at it.