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How can you advocate for your own self-interest politically, if it is not connected to your identity? How would you even decide what policies you want? PG mak
by platz 9y ago
How can you advocate for your own self-interest politically, if it is not connected to your identity?
How would you even decide what policies you want?
PG makes it seem like we could simply do politics by creating some ultimate utilitarian function. But then how do you decide what it counts as good?
In fact, there is no separating identity from politics, no matter how you try to obfuscate it.
- platz 9y agoWhy the down votes? Please explain your reasoning.
- badestrand 9y agoI think you might have a good point, there is no "objectively good" in politics. For example when you consider highly unequal incomes as a problem in society then you will support different measures than when you don't find that problematic at all. For both there is no "real" basis, the measurement for "good" is only your image of how you want the world to be in 100 years and thus entirely subjective.