[META] I’m not trying to win for a reason; it would be improper for me, a person who loves to argue about politics, to create a “test” in which I conveniently get to argue about politics with a community which has a prohibition against arguing about politics; I felt that there would be an implicit ethical violation there. I chose that argument specifically so I wouldn’t get sucked in. Yeah, the axiom I chose was kind of poor; it’s not a position I regularly argue from. Fortunately, even faulty arguments are good for this test. (And holy crap staying uninvolved is going to be hard. I had to erase my counterarguments four times while writing this.) [/META]
[META] I’m not trying to win for a reason; it would be improper for me, a person who loves to argue about politics, to create a “test” in which I conveniently get to argue about politics with a community which has a prohibition against arguing about politics; I felt that there would be an implicit ethical violation there. I chose that argument specifically so I wouldn’t get sucked in. Yeah, the axiom I chose was kind of poor; it’s not a position I regularly argue from. Fortunately, even faulty arguments are good for this test. (And holy crap staying uninvolved is going to be hard. I had to erase my counterarguments four times while writing this.) [/META]
Now this is really interesting evidence. But I’m not sure it’s unique to political issues.