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Cherry picking one example (which happens to also be not "reality" but rather a best fit to evidence and which also does not fall as neatly along partisan lines
by mythrwy 9y ago
Cherry picking one example (which happens to also be not "reality" but rather a best fit to evidence and which also does not fall as neatly along partisan lines as you appear to imagine) doesn't show anything about "reality" being politically partisan.
Partisan, by definition, is prejudice, the opposite of objectivity, and an enemy of "reality".
The natural human condition, (at least in culture or society) is to be biased (often unthinkingly, out of cultural training or personal interest). Overcoming this is the path towards understand reality.
- smt88 9y agoOK, we're just not talking about the same thing. What I mean is that, in the US, Democrats are not equally far from the truth as Republicans. Or, if you want to rephrase it without the parties, liberals are not equally far from the truth. Objective facts will not be perfectly diplomatic. They will appear to be biased in one direction or another. This is true of literally every issue in which one side is closer to reality/truth than the other side. I don't need to cherry pick because that's every single issue (as long as they disagree, anyway).
- mythrwy 9y ago"in the US, Democrats are not equally far from the truth as Republicans" Sure they are. Perhaps further on some things. It just depends on what aspect of the truth you are talking about. Economic reality or the age of the earth? Mistaking bias, value judgement or personal preference for objective reality is a common mental trap. It's taken people, organizations and even whole cultures down many times.