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Question
Answer the following question :
What are the advantages of an imaginary argument with a person having a different bias?
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Solution
Having an imaginary argument with a person having a different bias has only one advantage, as compared with the actual conversation with opponents; this one advantage is that the method is not subject to the same limitations of time and space.
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