A rare reason to support a political candidate: deeper calmness
We are thinking that by debating a topic we can find a better solution. That if we talk with someone with an opposing view than ours, they will remind us of variables we weren't considering before, which we need to in order to determine the best path forward. But what very frequently happens is that people get nervous and can't think as logically as they intended to. - Maybe they don't accept that the other person is against them, which keeps them stuck, repeatedly thinking about that situation, - or they start imagining the future and getting worried about their imagination They end up creating an infinite number of ways to connect where they are right now to the only solution they are able to think about at that time. For example, the current list of logical fallacies in Wikipedia is substantial and seems to have the tendency to keep growing as intellect grows. This process ignores the fact that one is feeling unpleasant and wants to stop feeling so. We can do better. Whe...