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

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Comment author: Lumifer 06 February 2014 04:47:37PM 4 points [-]

For some reason this is a preferred mode of political dialogue.

The reason is pretty obvious. The goal of the participants in a political dialogue is to become more liked and to make competitors less liked. It has nothing to do with "raising the level of discourse and understanding on that topic" -- that's just NOT the point of the exercise.

Comment author: jaibot 06 February 2014 08:10:16PM 1 point [-]

It probably continues because of the expectation of debates - no one would introduce them if they didn't already exist today.