If you care strongly about politics, you'll think you're having political arguments with people - but what they're really debating is aesthetics.
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Across every domain, it's a very easy mistake to make to assume you come at a discussion from a similar angle as your opponent. You don't.
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Different angles generate different fundamentals & conclusions. There is plenty of room to make value judgements on which are more important...
(But people don't think that way.)
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Assume you share values, your model is bad.
Assume you share presumptions, your model is bad.
Assume you share conclusions, your model is bad.
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It really doesn't help that people are still convinced that they, individually, have True Arguments to make, based on Truth.
Wittgenstein where?
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(Not to be confused for mockery of the process of argument or the concept of truth, but rather our pretentiousness surrounding these things.)