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user-inactivated  ·  4101 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why rational people disagree

I've heard people say "I don't know" about political questions.

Another difference, which I thought I'd alluded too but perhaps didn't emphasize, is that the freezing point of water isn't alterable by argument. Political positions are alterable by argument, or at gunpoint for that matter. Thus, you can change the political (cultural, psychological, religious, etc.) landscape even from a position of ignorance.