Why Is It Important to Put Out Good Arguments?

Just because something is helpful, it doesn't mean it's good. Marxism rightfully points out a lot of the problems with capitalism but then it leads down some really bad rabbit holes after that. Thomas Aquinas sets up steelmen as you say. And that's really good to have. I was put off by Christianity at first because one of the reasons was that it seemed to just quibble over a lot of small theological issues in the public. But then I started to see that there is a real deep soul to the faith and the things that were written by the Carmelites especially combined with the Dominican technical precision were just amazing.