This is a nonpartisan tweet that applies whichever side you're on and not an outgroup bad tweet. I'm often *very* frustrated by how bad the explanations from people I agree with are.
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A problem with intellectual Turing test style "you should be able to explain your opposition's position clearly in a way they'd agree with" tests is that generally 90% of your opposition can't explain their position clearly in a way someone on their side would agree with either.
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Do you think it would help if we explicitly define (to ourselves) particular meanings of the buzzwords we use? I also find it annoying that almost all heated debates inevitably devolve into "ok define XXX" and never reaching agreement. Most don't even get to that stage
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It starts with agreeing on "good." There are people who believe that dying of starvation if they're poor is preferable to being forced to share something when they're not. There are people who believe that "morality" is defined by actions, not outcomes. This, is the divide.
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if this approach is about naming your policy position then I think it makes sense? it feels like a lot of people taking their stances aren't about policy per se, but because of what it means for their identity, and as apologetics for how they feel the world should be
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That should be a pretty good signal about the "side," actually.
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It is! It signals that it's made out of people.
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you have to talk to people of similar intellectual capacity and interest but then the entire discourse is elitist, making it inherently not a level playing field for many ideologies, so their proponents insist you engage with lower quality ideas it’s the Problem
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