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1.A good devil's advocate can help safeguard group-deliberation from the inside. The devil’s advocate defends faith and justice by being in the group but not of it: by keeping the group divided against itself, she holds a space for truth against the pressure of consensus. A devil’s advocate is, for instance, well set up to hunt for as-yet unshared information, since for her the sharing of information is never an attempt to be on the same page as other people.We cannot ask the authorities, experts, or science to do all our thinking for us. Sometimes we need to think as a group, and in principle, devil's advocates allow us to combine the goal of figuring things out together with the goal of commitment to the truth, and they do this by functioning as a check on group consensus.