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I feel like these simulations refute "if you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. if you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain": http://quotein
by zackmorris 9y ago
I feel like these simulations refute "if you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. if you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain":
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/
The older I get, the more it seems to me that context is the basis of strongly held political beliefs. Growing up in Idaho, I'm often dismissed out of hand when I offer my (by regional standards) liberal opinions. I've met many people from liberal states (even California) who offer conservative opinions, which always struck me as ironic. How would our positions hold up when confronted with a change of context, if we saw how their application backfired?
I'm wondering if there is a duality here, where different approaches can both be right but one could and should be chosen based on desired outcome. People unaccustomed to pragmatism may be performing a logical fallacy by assuming that their way works in all cases, when it practice they would lose to experience (and in the case of the prisoner's dilemma, cooperation).