Seeing as the comment is down to −3 now, I seem to be failing in this case.
You may have been more successful if you avoided telling people how they should vote, particularly with wording implying prohibition. Stating your own decision, reasoning and preference without presumption in general makes me more inclined to accommodate.
I may have voted up the comment in question if Eliezer had included even a single sentence description on what difference using TDT instead of Lame DT would have made to the question of ‘politics as charity’. That would have been a real contribution to the thread. As is it is more of a ‘complete the pattern’ then rant response that does not indicate that Eliezer even considered what TDT would mean in the context.
(It would change the example in the introduction and change the framing in some of the remainder. Politics would still be charity, even though what that means is changed somewhat.)
You may have been more successful if you avoided telling people how they should vote, particularly with wording implying prohibition. Stating your own decision, reasoning and preference without presumption in general makes me more inclined to accommodate.
I may have voted up the comment in question if Eliezer had included even a single sentence description on what difference using TDT instead of Lame DT would have made to the question of ‘politics as charity’. That would have been a real contribution to the thread. As is it is more of a ‘complete the pattern’ then rant response that does not indicate that Eliezer even considered what TDT would mean in the context.
(It would change the example in the introduction and change the framing in some of the remainder. Politics would still be charity, even though what that means is changed somewhat.)