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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 14 Jan \ parent \ on: The Pleb Economist #2: Politics is Provably Hard econ
I've noticed that any rational discussion of voting triggers a pretty quick emotional reaction from normal people.
I think Jonathan Haidt would link it to a sense of Sanctity.
Yes, agreed. I do think economists put too little stock into ideas like sanctity and repugnance. I mean, the utility function is implicitly a consequentialist approach to ethics. What if people care as much about process as outcomes?
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