Do you think there is a right answer to every question in politics? Are there enough answerable questions to unambiguously occupy the right positions? Or are we ever stuck in this tug-o-war picking data to support our unsubstantiated worldviews?
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Replying to @Erickish10 @GodDoesnt
There is an optimal solution, yes. Will we ever find them all? Unlikely.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
What is being optimized? Is this informed by a value? If so, where does this value come from?
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The role of government is to serve the people - make society flourish. People will continue to argue about the best ways to do this forever.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
So we can rationally/empirically identify the values by which we “should” optimize, and obviously then identify the best ways to accomplish this. Doesn’t this conflict with Hume’s gap/Is-ought chasm?
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Replying to @Erickish10 @GodDoesnt
Or we can not and just make up policies randomly with no thought to evidence of their impact on the population's wellbeing. Yes, it does. I don't want to argue about why it should yet again. Had the same conversation too many times.
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I don't think we ever will identify all the perfect solutions to everything, especially as, as James points out, society changes. All we can do is argue that sets of values are best for humanity and apply our reason to the best evidence we have when arguing for & how
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