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kodos96 comments on Politics Discussion Thread January 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 02 January 2013 02:43:57PM 12 points [-]

People who don't want a regularly-occurring exception.

The entertaining thing from my perspective is that the discussions here have been polite, informative, and honest, and overall I'd consider them to have been productive thus far. It is of course possible that the tone or nature of these debates will change over time, but it seems on current evidence to be that a lot of people are mindkilled about whether or not politics is in fact a mindkiller. Granted, the voting system here generally encourages controversy - fifty votes yay and forty nine votes nay is better than an uninteresting post with one vote nay, after all.

Comment author: kodos96 02 January 2013 06:20:42PM 2 points [-]

The entertaining thing from my perspective is that the discussions here have been polite, informative, and honest

Yes, I've noticed that too, which was part of why I was confused that people objected to it.