One of the reasons I deeply respect Scott Alexander is that he continues to resist the impulse toward tribalism, and continues to care about broader questions like "is this action one that you'd support if it were the other team doing it"?

One of the reasons I deeply respect Scott Alexander is that he continues to resist the impulse toward tribalism, and continues to care about broader questions like "is this action one that you'd support if it were the other team doing it"?

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/seems-like-targeting

Gud words in the article: "If I ran the world, I would want newspapers to do the opposite of that - comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"

Easy to support but hard to do