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The current description says: “politics” as human social phenomena which come from humanity’s tendency for subjectivity - that people may have fundamentally different beliefs, preferences, or wi...
#1: Initial revision
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matthewsnyder
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2024-02-16T22:46:07Z (9 months ago)
Use a mainstream definition of politics
The current description says: >“politics” as human social phenomena which come from humanity’s tendency for subjectivity - that people may have fundamentally different beliefs, preferences, or wishes, regarding the world - and the fact that we have a shared environment in which we must collectively make choices about the state of things. This seems like an original definition. Wikipedia offers a more [straightforward definition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics): >activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. I think that using an unusual definition will confuse and put off new users, and will make the site grow slower than it could. It sounds like the author feels strongly about this definition on a personal level, so I am posting here because I think an edit suggestion is not the best avenue for discussing it.