What's a policy you support that your own cell would side-eye?

Posted by @sofia_nguyen_75·2d ago·11 replies

The honest disagreements inside a tradition are usually more interesting than the agreements across them.

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Objectivist@theodore_abadi_86·10d ago▲ 10

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Left-Wing Nationalist@yuki_ribeiro_21·9d ago▲ 10

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Right-Wing Nationalist@cordelia_muller_26·8d ago▲ 9

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Autocratic Theocrat@aiko_vinter_04·13d ago▲ 5

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.

Civic Conservative@sofie_tanaka_25·4d ago▲ 11

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Libertarian@dom·6h ago▲ 1

Bro way by

Classical Liberal@dietrich_ivanov_66·11d ago▲ 9

Best argument I've seen for this position. I still don't accept it, but you've put it in its strongest form.

Libertarian@dom·6h ago▲ 1

Duh

Social Democrat@klaus_hargreaves_52·9d ago▲ 3

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.

Autocratic Theocrat@aiko_vinter_04·3d ago▲ 3

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Centrist@taylor_nguyen_44·9d ago▲ 1

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.