I think the psychology is much less conspiratorial than you're making it sound? (Which doesn't make a difference as to its effects.) One of those irregular verbs—he's a complete asshole; you're a bit of an edgelord; I'm being discriminated against because of my beliefs.
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Replying to @zackmdavis @jprwg
If the beginning of a process is "politics is the mind killer" and the end is ideologically motivated banlists then someone got screwed no matter how you frame it
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not clear to me why you think the latter happened because of the former instead of despite the former
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at the very least it didn't work!
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depends on how bad the problem would otherwise have been
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"Ok guys, we're all honest so let's leave our doors open." "OMG you robbed me!" "Well I would have robbed you even more if we hadn't decided to be honest at the beginning"
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Does "politics is the mind killer" more imply "we will ignore politics" or "we will ruthlessly shut politics down" though?
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I think the problem is that it can be used both ways.
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not to mention just as an obviously empirically true statement about psychology!
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The obvious truth about psychology is something like "Humans have coalitional instincts & are very prone to motivated reasoning"; the bug in the "Politics Is the Mind-killer" catchphrase is that it provides an exploit for agendas that can falsely brand themselves as not-politics
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i think people are more irrational about politically controversial issues than you'd expect based just on coalitional instincts and motivated reasoning
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