Here are two important insights that emerged from a Facebook conversation I had today:
First, when people choose policy on the basis of group identity rather than analysis of the merits/demerits, we move further and further away from serving the public interest and more and more toward serving factional interests.
Second, and worse yet, human beings are too complex to be self-labelled (or labelled by others) by single-dimensional criteria, at least not with any truth or justice!
Yet these fallacious methodologies are adopted by more and more people in our society.