I am thinking of making a question post to ask because I expect there may be others who are able to address an issue related to legal access to abortion in a way that is actually good.
Part of the trouble with highly charged political discussions is that it’s usually not drawing people in a way to discuss in a way that’s actually good.
I’m not as concerned about potential reputational harm to myself compared to others.
The issue is not just reputational harm to individuals but also reputational harm to LessWrong itself. If you would write posts that bear a good risk for reputational harm to LessWrong itself but provide relatively little value to pay for that, it makes sense to downvote those.
Charles A. Murray who wrote The Bell Curve made the point that while he’s criticized a lot his for the book his critics seldomly quote anything from the book when criticizing it. He spent a lot of effort in writing his book in a way where you can’t easily attack it by taking passages out of context.
When having highly political discussions it’s worth striving to have the discourse happen on that kind of level.
Part of the trouble with highly charged political discussions is that it’s usually not drawing people in a way to discuss in a way that’s actually good.
The issue is not just reputational harm to individuals but also reputational harm to LessWrong itself. If you would write posts that bear a good risk for reputational harm to LessWrong itself but provide relatively little value to pay for that, it makes sense to downvote those.
Charles A. Murray who wrote The Bell Curve made the point that while he’s criticized a lot his for the book his critics seldomly quote anything from the book when criticizing it. He spent a lot of effort in writing his book in a way where you can’t easily attack it by taking passages out of context.
When having highly political discussions it’s worth striving to have the discourse happen on that kind of level.