I think this post greatly overestimates how many political disagreements depend on fact and science, and underestimates how many depend on values and morality.
This. Many fundamental disagreements have more to do with where to land on the Pareto frontier of trade offs between different moral values than what truth is. Freedom vs security, justice vs mercy, independence vs community, etc. There aren’t necessarily any “true” answers to these questions.
Obviously, this isn’t always the case and plenty of positions are not on the Pareto frontier, but it’s more complicated than a scale from right to wrong.
I think this post greatly overestimates how many political disagreements depend on fact and science, and underestimates how many depend on values and morality.
This. Many fundamental disagreements have more to do with where to land on the Pareto frontier of trade offs between different moral values than what truth is. Freedom vs security, justice vs mercy, independence vs community, etc. There aren’t necessarily any “true” answers to these questions.
Obviously, this isn’t always the case and plenty of positions are not on the Pareto frontier, but it’s more complicated than a scale from right to wrong.