Step 1: Look at how emotional each side is. Step 2: Assume the less emotional side is right and the more emotional side is wrong. I first proposed this "Mellow Heuristic" three years ago, and I say it's held up well.https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/04/the_mellow_heur.html …
It's striking that Effective Altruists are less histrionic when discussing how to achieve 10^^30 increases in total future sentient well-being than most folks are when discussing an antifa-vs-MAGA protest that results in one minor injury.
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One injury is an outrage. 10^^30 increase in well being is a statistic.
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