Good point. The truth is, my starting point is much less libertarian than most LWers, if I recall survey results correctly. I’m trying to understand the other side, which is I gather virtuous within a rationality framework. I wasn’t trying to bias what answers I would get, but you’re right that it could in some fashion or other.
If you already know the best arguments against X, then it is entirely reasonable to ask for the best arguments for X, of course. Since I didn’t know whether this was the case, I had phrased my warning as a question.
The survey had very few options for political ideology and was phrased like “what is the closest to your view”. So the survey just means that people mostly prefer libertarianism to the short list of ideologies mentioned, not that they believe or advocate it.
Confirmation bias warning: Shouldn’t you seek the best arguments both for and against?
Edit: although you say
the phrasing of the question is still biased towards libertarianism.
Good point. The truth is, my starting point is much less libertarian than most LWers, if I recall survey results correctly. I’m trying to understand the other side, which is I gather virtuous within a rationality framework. I wasn’t trying to bias what answers I would get, but you’re right that it could in some fashion or other.
If you already know the best arguments against X, then it is entirely reasonable to ask for the best arguments for X, of course. Since I didn’t know whether this was the case, I had phrased my warning as a question.
The survey had very few options for political ideology and was phrased like “what is the closest to your view”. So the survey just means that people mostly prefer libertarianism to the short list of ideologies mentioned, not that they believe or advocate it.