katydee comments on November 2014 Media Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 05 November 2014 05:43:34AM *  3 points [-]

Politics is an important domain to which we should individually apply our rationality—but it's a terrible domain in which to learn rationality, or discuss rationality, unless all the discussants are already rational.

The purpose of LessWrong is to discuss and learn rationality, so I think politics are almost never appropriate here. But even if we think that civilized discussion of political matters is appropriate, the post I was critiquing was not, IMO, up to our standards of civility and polite discussion.

Comment author: Lumifer 05 November 2014 04:21:23PM 1 point [-]

the post I was critiquing was not, IMO, up to our standards of civility and polite discussion.

I don't think it was out of line. May I suggest instead that you reject it because of its ideological content which you find unacceptable? Fighting against the political mindkill you fall prey precisely to what you object to.