spiderwort@lemm.eeBanned to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoShould we replace democracy with science?message-squaremessage-square89linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squaresweng@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoHow about the current system where we vote and do science?
minus-squarespiderwort@lemm.eeBannedOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoOr, maybe we already do 100% science. It’s just that the agenda isn’t precisely popular. And the voting is just for show.
minus-squareMelkath@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoScience is an empirical method of finding fact. Government is a philosophical method of seeking truth. You are being pretty incoherent. How does science determine the order initiatives are addressed?
minus-squarespiderwort@lemm.eeBannedOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoWell first we would change beans into peas. The rest is trivial.
minus-squarespiderwort@lemm.eeBannedOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years ago99% of the voters wouldn’t know science if it bit them on the butt
minus-squaresweng@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoSounds like a wildly unscientific statement, considering e.g ~10% of the US population works in STEM.
minus-squarespiderwort@lemm.eeBannedOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoThat doesn’t seem to make much of a difference, strangely enough.
minus-squareZorque@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoYou make a good case for your own argument.
minus-squareZorque@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoI mean, trying to prove your own theory by being the perfect case study seems a little extreme…
How about the current system where we vote and do science?
Or, maybe we already do 100% science. It’s just that the agenda isn’t precisely popular. And the voting is just for show.
Science is an empirical method of finding fact.
Government is a philosophical method of seeking truth.
You are being pretty incoherent.
How does science determine the order initiatives are addressed?
Well first we would change beans into peas.
The rest is trivial.
99% of the voters wouldn’t know science if it bit them on the butt
Sounds like a wildly unscientific statement, considering e.g ~10% of the US population works in STEM.
That doesn’t seem to make much of a difference, strangely enough.
You make a good case for your own argument.
Well somebody’s got to.
I mean, trying to prove your own theory by being the perfect case study seems a little extreme…