Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "The Drawing That Explains Political Divides" video.

  1. Cognitive dissonance is a bad feeling when two of your beliefs conflict - that's a good thing.
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  2. I don't think that that explains political divides. There would still be political divides without all of these biases, because people have different information. Even under the same reasonable epistemic biases people would come to disagree. And there is other behaviors that we call unreasonable and that also leads to groups forming, such as expressing what your peers express, rather than what you have come to believe based on what feels like it makes sense / corresponds to the evidence, and applying stated principles selectively.
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  3. I was totally persuaded by the 10000th variation of an argument for God's existence that finally no philosopher bothered to debunk...
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