what I have trouble understanding is the the doctrinal adoption of slippery slope hyper-vigilance by those on the left. I find the right wing Christian fundamentalist objection to be a lot easier to understand (they have a religious doctrine directly undermined by the facts).
second story: people who are innately impulsive and poor at regulating anger and fear are elevated risk to engage in actions that could result in head trauma (including violent crime). policy: longer incarceration for violent offenders with head injuries
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Good long thread here. Don't have much to add other than while facts don't have political valence as such, they have an undeniable impact on proto-political narratives, partly by regulating what is and what isn't possible or cost-effective.
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or is/isn't ideologically captured. so many of the culture war battlefronts are really about uncaptured ideas being fought over by ideologues who seek to capture them.
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