The argument that walls *generally* don’t work (which is prima facie absurd) provides an interesting illustration of how motivated reasoning works in political arguments.https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1076616122844229632 …
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(We really don’t want Trumps wall. So *any* arguments that would undermine his wall are readily believed and propogated. Even the arguments that we would otherwise know are silly. Even when there are very legitimate arguments at hand.)
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If someone from “respectable society” actually wants and supports Trump‘s wall, they probably won’t tell us, because the potential downside is larger than the upside, and we likely don’t know at least some their better arguments.
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For saying it out loud to people that are not their friends.
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