Re:Against Persuasion
by majormajor on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:51PM
(#27988884)
> By that theory, the reason that conservatives need not work as hard to understand liberals is that they feel all the same moral impulses liberals do, and more, while liberals only feel 2/5ths of the conservatives' impulses.
> The same theory suggests that conservative persuasion will be more effective on liberals than liberal persuasion on conservatives. This then leads to election losses, which leads to hand wringing about how liberals don't understand conservatives, so they can't convince them to vote liberal.
How so? My impression would be that then 2 out of 2 liberal arguments would then have appeal to conservatives, but only 2 out of 5 conservative arguments would work the other way.
> The same theory suggests that conservative persuasion will be more effective on liberals than liberal persuasion on conservatives. This then leads to election losses, which leads to hand wringing about how liberals don't understand conservatives, so they can't convince them to vote liberal.
How so? My impression would be that then 2 out of 2 liberal arguments would then have appeal to conservatives, but only 2 out of 5 conservative arguments would work the other way.