- old people should have less voting power bacause they wont live to see the results of their votes
- old people should have more voting power because they are older and have seen more of history
I guess they balance out and everyone gets an equal vote.
Have you ever heard a great retelling of history? It always seems to come from those who have invested Serious Effort to master a historical narrative, especially when they work with a community of fellow peers.
It’s about the general tendencies of humans, patterns, that you start to be able to perceive when you live a lot of life.
What tells you more about poverty — learning that an individual lives on less than a dollar a day or, say, spending 24 hours without food and shelter?
I would argue that the experience of lived history and the “facts” of history cannot be separated, and both must be equally valued.
There are those who do nothing more than collect information on homeless people, documenting them for various organizations or gov't agencies, sometimes paid. They are doing the fundamental work of demonstrating a phenomena whose scale would otherwise be belittled or denied. Some would say SF is actually pretty nice, with only a small homeless population.
When experiences disagree with each other, how should we move forward with discussion? With personal experience or with data?