Learning to speak other political languages can enable you to look at political debate from a point of view that is detached from your preferred heuristic. I am not saying that you should give up your preferred heuristic. However, you will find it useful to detach from it on occasion. Detachment can help you to understand those who use different heuristics. It also might enable you to employ your reasoning in a manner that is more constructive and less motivated. Detachment can help us to see the merit in others' points of view and avoid taking our own views to erroneous extremes. Detachment
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