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>Right, but if there's two of you and you don't get along, you just separate. Not all pairs may be able to separate (immediately or even later). Real life stuf
by vram22 8y ago
>Right, but if there's two of you and you don't get along, you just separate.
Not all pairs may be able to separate (immediately or even later). Real life stuff.
>There's no backroom conniving that can go on to get the upper hand on the other person, because you'd need other people to connive with. You either come to an agreement or move along.
Sure, about the conniving. But scheming against the other person is quite possible (and done plenty) for a single person against another single person. Real life again.
>We're talking about groups of people. Not the mathematical definition of a group.
I did not say or imply otherwise. I meant it in the real life sense.
- imgabe 8y agoTwo people can be against each other sure, but that's just adversaries. There's no politics because politics implies wrangling other people to your side against a different side. Politics is about building coalitions and alliances. If there's only two of you and you're working against each other, there's nobody for you to build an alliance with. You can't be an alliance of one. You don't have to convince yourself to do what you want to do because by definition you already want to do it.
- vram22 8y agoYou could be right, for some definition of politics. Maybe we were thinking of different meanings of it. It's an overloaded word.