Comment by JumpCrisscross
2 years ago
> I hate this
This is a natural response to divergent opinions [1]. It’s the mechanism through which social media polarises populations [2][3].
Our brains simply didn’t evolve to deal with multiple hypotheses and different opinions, and most of us never get the training to do so calmly and effectively.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sorting
[2] https://pnas.scienceconnect.io/api/oauth/authorize?ui_locale...
[3] https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/80/S1/351/2223236?login...
Yeah I watched that kurzgesagt video yesterday too. You're still a ghoul if you defend a man who was personally involved in bombing 150,000 civilians.
> still a ghoul if you defend a man who was personally involved in bombing 150,000 civilians
If you can't see the difference between defending a person and defending the meaning of a statute, sure. It makes life simpler when we turn up the contrast to absolutes.