I don’t think this makes much sense. Here’s a series of assorted heckles, followed by me simply stating my stance here.
You’re constantly in situations where you need to provide political forces. Consider: your family is getting together and deciding when/where/how-long. There are many tradeoffs here. It helps for you to make pushes and pulls on this, and be for / against options. This is often much better than saying “y’all decide and I’ll just show up”.
Even in the extreme, there are many things worth destroying. The FDA. AI extinction companies. Mob justice. Death. Sam Bankman-Fried’s company FTX.
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> White collar corporate America prizes the ability to work with anyone… Consider your political opinions… Expressing those opinions is discouraged. Why? Imagine a coworker said they were Against Your Team. Do you feel any reluctance to work with them? If you say you’re against Their Team, will they still want to work with you?
You say that expressing your opinions necessarily leads to animosity. While this is sometimes true, sometimes it leads to respect! I understand that sometimes it is worth not discussing these things beceause you don’t respect the other person’s ability to set it aside; but also I think you’re forgetting that there are ways to connect to someone’s human side while expressing very disagreed-with opinions.
I admit that it probably makes sense in a number of contexts to have a no-politics-discussion norm, but it is mostly a sign of dysfunction and low-skill amongst the people.
“You should oppose about one thing. Everywhere else, talk less, smile more.” ← I hope you did not take away from Hamilton that Burr is the guy to be emulated!
“It would not occur to me to write “____ is the ethics of evil” for basically any ____. I’d regard that as an unforced tactical error, and instead I aspire to try things like “I’m curious why people believe ____?”″ ← I put this slightly more in the ‘temperament’ category than the ‘tactics’ category.
My overall position: I think it’s a good heuristic to be able to work with anyone. But also I think it’s generally healthier to be able to take more political stands, and I think if you are in a position to then this is a good sign about your environment. I also think there’s a skill issue in being able to take political stands while still working with people who disagree with you on those.
I don’t think this makes much sense. Here’s a series of assorted heckles, followed by me simply stating my stance here.
You’re constantly in situations where you need to provide political forces. Consider: your family is getting together and deciding when/where/how-long. There are many tradeoffs here. It helps for you to make pushes and pulls on this, and be for / against options. This is often much better than saying “y’all decide and I’ll just show up”.
Even in the extreme, there are many things worth destroying. The FDA. AI extinction companies. Mob justice. Death. Sam Bankman-Fried’s company FTX.
In this quote
> White collar corporate America prizes the ability to work with anyone… Consider your political opinions… Expressing those opinions is discouraged. Why? Imagine a coworker said they were Against Your Team. Do you feel any reluctance to work with them? If you say you’re against Their Team, will they still want to work with you?
You say that expressing your opinions necessarily leads to animosity. While this is sometimes true, sometimes it leads to respect! I understand that sometimes it is worth not discussing these things beceause you don’t respect the other person’s ability to set it aside; but also I think you’re forgetting that there are ways to connect to someone’s human side while expressing very disagreed-with opinions.
I admit that it probably makes sense in a number of contexts to have a no-politics-discussion norm, but it is mostly a sign of dysfunction and low-skill amongst the people.
“You should oppose about one thing. Everywhere else, talk less, smile more.” ← I hope you did not take away from Hamilton that Burr is the guy to be emulated!
“It would not occur to me to write “____ is the ethics of evil” for basically any ____. I’d regard that as an unforced tactical error, and instead I aspire to try things like “I’m curious why people believe ____?”″ ← I put this slightly more in the ‘temperament’ category than the ‘tactics’ category.
My overall position: I think it’s a good heuristic to be able to work with anyone. But also I think it’s generally healthier to be able to take more political stands, and I think if you are in a position to then this is a good sign about your environment. I also think there’s a skill issue in being able to take political stands while still working with people who disagree with you on those.