C(urse of dimensionality) Rules Everything Around Me

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IMO part of what makes this palatable is that the chance of my vote being decisive is ~0, so voting can essentially be a costless expression of aspirational moralism. Given a dictatorial red button I might be more crass, but luckily that's not the choice set.

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in my view, but it doesn't typically get discussed in those terms

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I think I would detach the ostrich strategy from this particular threat to coherence. for instance the "realist" perspective from my POV seems ripe for it all on its own - even supposing the proletariat has all the same interests at the end should it have the same preference ordering over them?

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so you have a trilemma. either realism does *prescriptively* call for a particular ordering and you have to convince the rest of the class of the true order (in which case you preserve realism but not anti-moralism), realism does descriptively and thus plainly does not explain political behavior

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