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This is the most significant essay I have encountered to date on the armedwithreason website. I am thrilled by the hope and potential in the "enacting deep canvassing" technique, for it is more than a mere technique: it is (I think) a profound contribution to the canon of revolutionary non-violence. The debaters, necessary as they are, seek to dominate and subdue the opposition in a kind of conquest. Not exactly nonviolent! What an effective "deep canvasser," such as Devin, commits to is a refusal to judge anyone as an enemy through finding compassion for their misconceptions. Bravo. An awesome act of loving the other out of reverence for the possibility of their transformation. But how difficult this must be! We need workshops and teaching to become skillful enactors of deep canvassing.

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