[isaacremuant]

> Making decisions based on facts and principled reasoning, and not vague aesthetic preferences or personal animosity.

You're like companies claiming that "we make decisions based on data".

Believe your own Kool aid but reality is much more nuanced and power/leadership/intuition based than "data based".

I don't want to get into politics but it would be extremely easy for me to find several examples where you'll claim something and when I say that's emotional and tribal you'll decide I must be <label>.

I don't even care about this specific example but about your initial generalization from it. Either you talk about this specific case only or you make and prove your generalizations in a "rational and unemotional" way, right?