Abortion doesn’t weigh 300 pounds for everyone. That other people find abortion difficult doesn’t mean it subjectively weights more than the bar plus 40 pounds. Witnessing someone bench abortion with relative ease can also be expected to be beneficial to onlookers. Especially when replies that get too blue/greeny are ignored and treated like spam.
I really do mean abortion doesn’t weight 300 pounds for everyone. I, for example, don’t care much at all about abortion—it is almost entirely divorced from my identity—so I do not have to use much in the way of ‘rationalist muscle’ to avoid the gravity of emotional bias. On the other hand there are some topics about which I am passionate. Those subjects may weigh more for me than they would for some of the people for whom abortion represents a huge burden of temptation towards bias.
This was just a tangential thought that your analogy prompted. What constitutes ‘politics’ is itself subjective and can be fit into a bench press metaphor where the weight is intended to represents fighting bias.
Abortion doesn’t weigh 300 pounds for everyone. That other people find abortion difficult doesn’t mean it subjectively weights more than the bar plus 40 pounds. Witnessing someone bench abortion with relative ease can also be expected to be beneficial to onlookers. Especially when replies that get too blue/greeny are ignored and treated like spam.
Better to say that 300 pounds isn’t heavy for everyone, but yes.
I really do mean abortion doesn’t weight 300 pounds for everyone. I, for example, don’t care much at all about abortion—it is almost entirely divorced from my identity—so I do not have to use much in the way of ‘rationalist muscle’ to avoid the gravity of emotional bias. On the other hand there are some topics about which I am passionate. Those subjects may weigh more for me than they would for some of the people for whom abortion represents a huge burden of temptation towards bias.
This was just a tangential thought that your analogy prompted. What constitutes ‘politics’ is itself subjective and can be fit into a bench press metaphor where the weight is intended to represents fighting bias.
That makes sense.