Someone is actively looking for a person (or an AI, or a role) willing to argue the unpopular, contrarian, or morally difficult side — across all categories of discussion. Politics, ethics, science, relationships, art, technology… no topic is off-limits. The hyphens might indicate a specific search syntax (e.g., on a vintage search engine, Usenet, or a database).
That's a fascinatingly cryptic post title. It reads like a fragmented search query or a piece of "found text" — possibly from an old forum, a metadata tag, or even a deliberate poetic fragment. Searching for- the devils advocate in-All Categ...
The devil's advocate ( advocatus diaboli ) was the Vatican official who argued against a candidate's sainthood to test their case. So the poster could be searching for the method of rigorous doubt — not a person, but a perspective — applied universally. Why? Because they suspect groupthink, blind consensus, or missing nuance everywhere. Someone is actively looking for a person (or
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