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37 Post author: emr 26 March 2015 12:14AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 26 March 2015 12:39:04AM 8 points [-]

Political topics elicit lower quality participation, holding the set of participants fixed. This is the thesis of "politics is the mind-killer".

I don't think that's a good description. The article argues that using political example when you can make the same point with a nonpolitical example is bad because the political aspect prevents people from using their usual reasoning abilities.