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Not all writing is thinking, and there is definitively more to thinking than writing.

• jondubois 6y ago
  True, a lot of writing is just reacting - An emotional response. It's a big mistake to assume that everyone is driven by logic and reason when, in fact, the majority of people's communication is driven by emotions and learned rhetoric; sometimes masquerading as logic and thought. As an extreme case, I find that people who say things like "People who believe the earth is flat are idiots" are themselves not logical; they are driven purely by faith and group-think. Aside from astronomers and certain other kinds of scientists, most people cannot say with 100% confidence that the earth is round. This is because most people were taught this fact at a young age from a science textbook or from a teacher; they have no actual evidence to back it up; their foundation of knowledge in that area is therefore extremely weak and yet they're prepared to call doubters idiots based on consensus alone. They ignore the fact that the popular consensus can be wrong and has been wrong many times in history. People's failure to identify points of weaknesses in the foundation of their own knowledge is a sign that they are driven by emotions.