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A lot of that is their personal responsibility. They learn in the school of life, just like we can naturally inoculate ourselves by living out in the real worl

• ceejayoz 7y ago
  > They learn in the school of life, just like we can naturally inoculate ourselves by living out in the real world. Well, they're not. That's the problem. You said this is "the greatest opportunity to teach critical thinking", and now you're saying no teaching? Which is it?
  • yters 7y ago
    How do you know they are not? And there is no contradiction. It is more a matter of not stopping learning. Learning is always happening naturally. People mostly need the opportunity.
    • ceejayoz 7y ago
      People have plenty of opportunity. That we have anti-vaxxers and 40% of Americans rejecting evolution makes it self-evident that opportunity is not being taken.
      • yters 7y ago
        Or, apply modus tollens and maybe the arguments for those positions could be better.
• fzeroracer 7y ago
  So you don't actually have a plan. You just want to keep going down the same status quo which is what allows people like Alex Jones and what not to spread conspiracies which have directly resulted in harm to people.
  • yters 7y ago
    Perhaps their ability to influence is tied to decades of trust lost in the mainstream media?