"Bring back _____ shaming". Let me go out on a limb here...you're not ____, are you? You haven't done any research to find how price elastic ____ is, and don't actually know if _____ shaming works, nor what the deadweight cost is, do you?
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Replying to @MorlockP
The true utility of utilitarianism is forcing "for greater goo" types to do the math, which they can't
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Anybody can do “if it saves just one life” math. First, you assume that your policy will be lifesaving. Then, you assign that life infinite value. When two people are executed to “save just one life,” utility will peak.
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Replying to @Haunted_Backlog @MorlockP
I mean, convincing your opponent to poast obviously insane shit is a valid counteraction strategy
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(the most surprising thing is that it often works against people who are actively aware of existence of this strategy because they can't stop with the crazy shit)
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A selective pressure against obviously insane shit? In politics? It might sometimes look like there is such a force, but I assure you it's only the selective pressure against unpopularity.
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Replying to @Haunted_Backlog @MorlockP
I'd say that since approximately 1800s there was a selection pressure against insane shit, and there still is, but a) it's not very strong b) it takes time c) insane shit is somewhat adapting
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We'd have to quantify insanity to test that theory against the rival "crazier world, crazier politics" hypothesis
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Replying to @Haunted_Backlog @MorlockP
fair, but I think a lot of people are really really "scoping out" a lot of ancient crazy politics out of their evaluations, resulting in something akin to that "analyzing height to performance among NBA stars" trick (conditioning on a collider, sort of) >
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like, past insane policies included stuff like killing people (including, remarkably, fertile women) because of goofy-ass spooky-action-at-distance accusations, or because a magic snake will snuff out the sun otherwise, as well as mutiliating genitals (in unhygienic conditions)>
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IIRC, most killing of women was not fertile women, but old women who owned land or other wealth...and correlated w periods of resource scarcity. Perfectly logical 
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Replying to @MorlockP @Haunted_Backlog
I was more poking fun of certain oppressed minorities sacrificing, as one article put it, "anyone and everyone" to appease their sky/headfriends
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