Oligopsony comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 24 February 2011 06:34:15PM 2 points [-]

given that most self-identified liberals want less government involvement in many family related issues (i.e. gay marriage).

Mm. I'm not quite sure this is true. Many liberals I know are perfectly content with the level of government involvement in (for example) marriage -- we just want the nature of that involvement to not discriminate against (for example) gays.