I was trying to explain to a liberal earlier that the Tragedy of the Commons is a bullshit thought experiment that you can overcome with basic competency in resource management and that people are not all inherently motivated purely by self-interest. It’s like talking to a brick wall.

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Talking to liberals in general tends to be like talking to a brick wall. Except actual brick walls don’t shout dumb shit back.

I find this to be a particularly useful launching point:

It always helps to reframe the question and explore the problem from a different angles

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