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Comment author: DanArmak 15 May 2016 03:10:47PM 3 points [-]

we can for the most part collaboratively truth-seek on most issues, except those defined as 'politics',

This is true not only connotationally (political topics cause humans to behave this way), but also denotationally: those topics which cause humans to behave this way, we call political (or 'tribal').

Comment author: Lumifer 16 May 2016 12:47:09AM 1 point [-]

Nope. Consider the whole wide world of incentives. If a discussion leads to significant real-world results, and not just of political kind, participants have incentives to attempt turn this discussion to their advantage and they regularly do. Truth-seeking is a very common casualty.

For simple examples think about money, sex, etc.

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