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The main problem is that everyone thinks that it's something we have to teach other people to do, but few see this as something that they themselves have to get
by bnralt 3y ago
The main problem is that everyone thinks that it's something we have to teach other people to do, but few see this as something that they themselves have to get better at. In fact, people become simply hostile to others for doing this if it's a piece of information they like.
I just saw a quote yesterday taken out of context on Reddit, and one of the most highly upvoted comments was someone mocking people who want context. If the quote makes a bad person bad, than someone even bothering to look at whether or not it accurately portrayed the situation is the enemy trying to defend the bad person.
Everyone should put more effort into fact checking things they want to be true than things they don't, because it's usually when we want something to be true that we drop our guards.
- a_gnostic 3y agoI wish I could upvote this more.
- vladms 3y agoMaybe we could take a step back and don't think in black and white. I do not "want something to be true", I give it a probability to be true between 0 and 1. But the thing is that moving from binary (true/false) to continuous (probability) requires mental effort which many people prefer not (or are not able) to do.