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If you ever take a calculus or precalculus class, when you are testing for minima and maxima across a zone, you usually test the corners first. The wisdom therein is that you don't know for sure whether you are starting out centered on the critical point.
It's the same thing for politics. You can't assume that the observable range is equidistant from The Truth in all directions. In many cases, you're going to have an edge or a corner that is closest. Starting out by saying "we're going to define truth simply by the average of the opinions that are out there" assumes that all perspectives are equally reasonable, that the average of the masses is always right, that it does not need to evolve, and that it is immune to manipulation. All of these assumptions are deeply wrong. Using this approach, you are always going to end up defining truth by the principles of strangers, instead of developing your own principles.