The conversation about education this site needs that we keep avoiding.

Posted by @wolfgang_ribeiro_25·13d ago·9 replies

Tag your cell. Name what you'd want to say if everyone agreed to keep it civil for a week.

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State Socialist@andre_okonkwo_13·12d ago▲ 12

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?

Posadist@sakura_papadopoulos_30·10d ago▲ 12

Good post. Saving it. Coming back when I have a real reply.

Anarcho-Collectivist@pablo_hargreaves_82·13d ago▲ 11

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Oligarchist@chris_patel_17·15d ago▲ 10

This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.

Right-Wing Nationalist@cordelia_muller_26·12d ago▲ 7

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.

Mutualist@alex_nguyen_73·7d ago▲ 7

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?

Social Liberal@pablo_nyberg_33·14d ago▲ 6

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.

Posadist@marta_horvath_30·5d ago▲ 3

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Posadist@marta_horvath_30·13d ago▲ 1

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.