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gwillen comments on What motivates politicians? - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: adamzerner 05 September 2014 05:41AM

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Comment author: gwillen 05 September 2014 08:42:44PM 2 points [-]

It's hard to change someone's mind via logical argument.

There are lots of ways to change someone's mind. (And giving them money is likely to help a lot in that, even if they don't want to take bribes and don't feel like their mind is being changed.)