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Nobody avoids confirmation bias. The best we can do is to cultivate our critical thinking and try to counter such things that are part of the human experience. To ask this is like asking if we avoid being influenced by others.
I'd hope I'd be open minded, and I try to be that way by looking for evidence for claims. Is rape wrong? The gut instinct for most people is to agree that it is very wrong, but why is it wrong? You sit down and think about it, and maybe employ some tools. Consider the veil of ignorance, where you would design a society in which you have no idea which position you'll occupy. How would I feel if I were in a position where I could freely be raped? I'd feel pretty bad, and I can imagine most others would. We can show evidence to support the claim that being assaulted is not nice, and I can speak from personal experience of having had a bottle over my head. Rape is a type of assault, so I can argue that it's wrong. For whatever pleasure some may gain from it, the act comes at a great cost to others.
I think it's questioning things, following a logical process, and looking for evidence for the claims. This is how we try to avoid going for things just because they feel like the right choice. It's also why we need free and open discussion because we should be able to question anything, no matter how minor or offensive it may seem, so we can properly decide. Of course it can be difficult when we're simply not equipped to know the subject. How about climate change? I'm no scientist, so I instead have to look at the arguments and evidence being presented and observe how the experts respond.
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Nobody avoids confirmation bias. The best we can do is to cultivate our critical thinking and try to counter such things that are part of the human experience. To ask this is like asking if we avoid being influenced by others.
I'd hope I'd be open minded, and I try to be that way by looking for evidence for claims. Is rape wrong? The gut instinct for most people is to agree that it is very wrong, but why is it wrong? You sit down and think about it, and maybe employ some tools. Consider the veil of ignorance, where you would design a society in which you have no idea which position you'll occupy. How would I feel if I were in a position where I could freely be raped? I'd feel pretty bad, and I can imagine most others would. We can show evidence to support the claim that being assaulted is not nice, and I can speak from personal experience of having had a bottle over my head. Rape is a type of assault, so I can argue that it's wrong. For whatever pleasure some may gain from it, the act comes at a great cost to others.
I think it's questioning things, following a logical process, and looking for evidence for the claims. This is how we try to avoid going for things just because they feel like the right choice. It's also why we need free and open discussion because we should be able to question anything, no matter how minor or offensive it may seem, so we can properly decide. Of course it can be difficult when we're simply not equipped to know the subject. How about climate change? I'm no scientist, so I instead have to look at the arguments and evidence being presented and observe how the experts respond.