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Originally Posted by loquitur
I'm interested in politics the way other people are interested in sports, except that I don't have a "team" that I root for. But I find the competitive process very interesting, and digging around behind it in the economic, philosophical, historical and polisci aspects is very stimulating.
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I love game theory as much as the next person. As I said, for a time it was a sport for me (debate club). The things we discuss here have real world consequences, though. Sports are inconsequential by nature. They're entertainment. Sure, some people get meaning and substance in their lives from it, but when the Raiders lose the people in Oakland don't suffer because of it. Maybe some people get pissed. BFD. When evidence about WMD is fabricated/misrepresented? Conservative estimates in Iraq are something like 200,000, realistically it's probably a lot closer to a million deaths. I can't possibly think of that as a game. Could something on TFP have changed that? Probably not, but that still doesn't make it a game.
I don't mean to make you out as a bad guy or anything, I just wanted to make clear my perspective on this.
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Originally Posted by loquitur
Willravel, I'm skeptical of most politically-generated "change", primarily because of the sausage problem and the problem that it often can't be implemented without power being conferred on people who probably shouldn't have it. That's why specific narrow issues are fine to address through politics, but our happiness in life shouldn't be.
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Testosterone has no place in politics when mature people are involved. I know it's a part of GT, but it feels like a failure when it comes into play.
You'll have to clarify on the "happiness in life" thing. I'm afraid you lost me on that.