It feels to me that you're treating this as more of a power game than a mutual pursuit of truth.
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What evidence is there that it's a search for truth? What have you done to show good faith? What sources have you already consulted? What answers have you already considered? And a hundred other questions that you MUST ANSWER before we can move on. Why not? By what right do you do all the grilling, and suffer none yourself?
What does that even mean? What possible power could I (?) have over you (?).
Again: your list is a large barrage of insistent questions that require your readers to contort to a set of terms you've made up. It is not open minded, it is treating the subject as already wrong and here's why.
It reminds me of when you have a "discussion" with someone and they aren't actually interested in listening, they're just waiting until you say something they can "ah ha!" you with.
Man I'm so confused here. Questions are good! Even if alexrohde is trying to bait you, you have an opportunity to lay out arguments.
I'm a libertarian and I love it when people ask me questions, even if they're trying to bait me. I've got a consistent ideology and someone asking me questions doesn't threaten it.
I think alexrohde is a systems kind of thinker, and he's trying to understand the values and ideology that social justice lives by, because it feels inconsistent to him. But again, maybe I'm being too generous.
The post also reminds me Double-Cruxing: http://lesswrong.com/lw/o6p/double_crux_a_strategy_for_resol... but.. granted, it's one sided.
Your post is Poe's Law for sea lioning. I can no longer differentiate satire in this space.
I'm serious, I wasn't trying to be satirical. I also wasn't asking any questions? I was just doing my best to... idk, lay out my own thoughts.
I know that Poe's Law applies to a lot of the internet, but I feel like HN is one place where people are more likely to honestly engage.