mwengler comments on How big of an impact would cleaner political debates have on society? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mwengler 07 February 2014 11:35:51AM 0 points [-]

In science you are primarily trying to figure out what is true.

In politics, you are primarily trying to gain support for preferences which are neither true nor false. It is a much harder problem. At least in science, there is a single standard for truth external to the participants. In politics, pretty clearly different people have different preferences.