Having political discussions in a way that actually allows people to focus on the issues is hard. As a result we have stronger standards on LessWrong for how to have political discussions. Doing anything that makes it even harder, like calling for shame only, is therefore bad.
Instead of focusing on the implications of the empiric claims you make about sanctions of how they kill people and don’t work for changing policy, you should have focused more on backing up the empiric claims. At the shallow level you discussed them I doubt anyone who believes that sanctions are a useful tool will be convinced. You should have likely should provide a gear-model of why they do so and if you want to convince people that there’s an academic consensus for that thesis have a lot more sources.
Having political discussions in a way that actually allows people to focus on the issues is hard. As a result we have stronger standards on LessWrong for how to have political discussions. Doing anything that makes it even harder, like calling for shame only, is therefore bad.
Instead of focusing on the implications of the empiric claims you make about sanctions of how they kill people and don’t work for changing policy, you should have focused more on backing up the empiric claims. At the shallow level you discussed them I doubt anyone who believes that sanctions are a useful tool will be convinced. You should have likely should provide a gear-model of why they do so and if you want to convince people that there’s an academic consensus for that thesis have a lot more sources.