Not only cultural battle; it is the entire point of Democratic politics. To convince people. From both sides. That is why US system requires bipartisan effort to pass laws; make important decisions.
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Do you sleep?
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I put in a solid 7 a day
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Supporting free speech is the *prerequisite* for having debates. That’s why it was enshrined in the Constitution—so dogmatic majorities couldn’t suppress the thought of minorities. I’d have to know more about the policy though to comment intelligently.
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I bet winning a cultural battle is more a matter of local coordination problems changing to the extent that people can afford less distasteful tradeoffs between competing moral intuitions. And the "persuasion" is an epiphenomenal post-hoc rationalization.
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I’m having a hard time identifying any cultural battle that’s actually been won via debate.
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Gay marriage was, by and large? Abolition of slavery in Great Britain? I mean, debate certainly helps, otherwise people wouldn't waste so much time doing it and governments wouldn't waste so much energy suppressing it.
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But alas, even as facts don't care about our feelings, our feelings often don't care about facts. Nonetheless, decentralizing a major avenue of intellectual/emotional manipulation will do more good than harm in the long run.
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All's fair in war, bub!
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