If I try to recognise a Fallacy of Compression in the area of political speech does my mind get killed?
I think a large part of mindkilling is that in political discussions most people make extreme compressions—like compressing hundred ideas under one label. Also different people compress different things under the same label, and then they argue which one’s usage of the label was the right one.
If one hopes to talk about politics rationally, one must uncompress, uncompress, uncompress… but then they are usually no longer talking politics (as it is usually understood), but economics or sociology or something else.
I think a large part of mindkilling is that in political discussions most people make extreme compressions—like compressing hundred ideas under one label. Also different people compress different things under the same label, and then they argue which one’s usage of the label was the right one.
If one hopes to talk about politics rationally, one must uncompress, uncompress, uncompress… but then they are usually no longer talking politics (as it is usually understood), but economics or sociology or something else.