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Some of your theses I disagree with:
Every lie is the same. It’s one thing to imply you’re just a regular guy by pretending to love fast food or a popular policy, more than you really do. It’s another to knowingly tell straight lies like ‘I grew up poor’, ‘The election was stolen’, ‘Our poll says Kamala wins’.
Evil always wins, who lies more wins more. A society where ‘lying is dominant’ would be more like Mao’s China, or even worse. There’s far too much truth and negative feedback on lying in our society for this to be our situation.
the cafeteria tray theory of morality. I don’t believe that if you refuse to eat the baby, the next guy will eat the baby.
I need to steal this and use this in the future, thank you.
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Isn't the first kind of lie worse? It's about the actual policies you'll implement, what they will do, adn why you believe in them. The second kind of lie doesn't have any similarly direct impacts.
I'm specifically talking about electoral politics. There's less tolerance for lying in other areas. The reason we have representative democracy is that the politicians can be smarter than the voters, and lie less in private.
No i am making a direct empirical claim about people who actually exist in the world. If you start saying stuff like "I am voting for this policy because my constituents want it even though I think it's wrong", you will be replaced by someone who doesn't do that
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