This is a good piece.https://twitter.com/AreoMagazine/status/1053373859590631425 …
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90%+ of the discussion I saw on Ford/Kavanaugh was about the partisan intuition the article talks about. But belief is not knowledge, and arguing over beliefs doesn't end in a productive conversation.
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Tribalism. We get it. How do we get past it? What’s the next step in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding? Here’s a suggestion: Compare the track records throughout history of the two predominant sets of moral intuitions.
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Which one, if either, is more congruent with human nature; with how individuals and societies actually operate in the real world? Does one, through history, on the whole, do more good than harm?
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We have the knowledge and the evidence to answer these and similar questions. Some examples:pic.twitter.com/DcL9q9x4cM
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But maybe we’re afraid to ask them because the answers might reveal a clear winner. Nobody wants that. The cost of being found out as the loser is too high; the very thought of it is unbearable. We’re happier not knowing and continuing to simply fight.
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But here’s the thing. The truth eventually almost always wins. There’s a relentless insistence to it, like gravity. We can deny it and avoid it all we want. But eventually it forces its way into daylight in a way that is impossible to deny.
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It can literally take centuries for it to prevail. We sometimes resist it with all our might. But it is patient, and inexorable. It wears us down the way wind and rain wear down mountains. Eventually it breaks through and becomes the new norm.
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This is what is commonly referred to as the arc of history, or the moral arc. It doesn’t bend toward the left or the right. It bends toward truth. The question is, in the “Conflict of Visions,” which vision is more right than wrong, and which is more wrong than right?
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The answer, I think, is clear. And so the NEXT question is, do we have the intellectual will and the moral strength to allow ourselves to see it? Time will tell.
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The only knowledge claim that matters is hers. Everything else flows from her burden of proof.
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