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Actual fake news is literally destroying America in my opinion
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RE: Actual fake news is literally destroying America in my opinion
(May 16, 2017 at 2:51 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:  It's a normal part of the human condition to be less skeptical of our own point of view. The cure for it is for people to stop reading stuff that supports their own point of view, and rather read stuff that refutes or argues against their point of view.

I guess it makes our minds more efficient - we don't keep on reinvestigating what we have learned forever and ever - to the expense of going onward with wrong conclusions.

I believe It's difficult next to impossible for people "to stop reading stuff that supports their own point of view, and rather read stuff that refutes or argues against their point of view." A better option would be if people of different (even opposing) political views could engage in respectful discussions - i.e. not a war in which each sides tries to end up the winner while the other the looser who must accept that he's been an idiot through all this time. The situation is similar in debates between people of different religious views - they usually turn into wars of who's right and who's wrong, who's the intelligent guy and who's the retard, while each assumes that the other one is a dishonest person.

Also, honest and impartial news agency could help. When the media is polarised, I believe people tend to just listen to the ones they like most.

Anyway, it's a complicated problem. I don't think a simple trick could solve everything.
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RE: Actual fake news is literally destroying America in my opinion - by Zenith - May 18, 2017 at 9:57 am

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