The main point I want to make is that politics is an area where we already go in expecting mindkilling to happen, so it’s a good opportunity for us to test our ability to handle it. If it goes poorly then we should be suspicious that similar things are going on in non-politics discussions as well. Also I phrased it as running an experiment for a reason; if it goes really poorly then that’s our experimental result.
The main point I want to make is that politics is an area where we already go in expecting mindkilling to happen, so it’s a good opportunity for us to test our ability to handle it. If it goes poorly then we should be suspicious that similar things are going on in non-politics discussions as well. Also I phrased it as running an experiment for a reason; if it goes really poorly then that’s our experimental result.