This also constitutes a good argument as so why left vs right is not the best way to talk about this.
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Lemme give you an example, I was brought up to hate Turks. All of my schooling was about that. Pure hatred — seeing them as subhuman.
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I abandoned that view. Why? Because it's wrong in my opinion, but also because it's central to my worldview not to hate Turks. So when I
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discovered that Turks are humans and that my whole generation had been conditioned to hate them for propaganda reasons, I stopped hating.
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The examples, I listed are above are cases where the person was often confronted with the opportunity to abandon that belief, and they opted
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The only rule I hold on to tight is that people are almost never binary in their behaviour. If they were my experiments would work better.
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I don't think I claimed that at all though?
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You didn’t, I was essentially categorising people into two camps in my head (willing to let go of blips vs not).
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Ahhh, gotcha!
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I was looking at it more generally, but rather than thinking about a continuum I shoved everyone into two camps, which prob isn’t right.
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Agreed.
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