If you use good methodology, you can only prove things that are true. I would like to help get arguments to that level.
That having been said, I think a theory of change that limits itself to eg Terry Schiavo is too weak. (cont)
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Science moves forward. Even morality moves forward in the sense where we don't have slavery anymore.
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Yes, people on both sides can get a lot of leverage out of screaming louder than the other side.
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But behind that, there's some signal that moves us forward.
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Maybe clearest example is success of evolutionary theory first in biology and then in public acceptance.
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We talk a lot about eg anti-vaxxers, but important to note they are < 5% of population because reason convinced the rest.
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Everything good we have, including system that has halved poverty in last 20 years, comes from this kind of thing.
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See https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/ … for more discussion of this.
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I am glad you don't use the "virtue signaling" formulation, since it is bad. Since I seem to have become the anti-evidence person in this
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