Message from @halfthink
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Because technically you have no control over your beliefs
its not an immutable characteristic,
and you most certainly have control over your beliefs
and i think you mean political leaning,
cuz political affiliation is a group you affiliate with
i.e. Republican party/Dems/Green/Libertarian
You don’t though, because it’s proven than most people don’t change their minds as a result of evidence
If someone thinks abortion is OK and someone argues that it’s not there’s basically nothing that can change their mind
At the very least it’s comparable to religion
theres such a thing as denial
how about santa? children believe in him
how do they stop believing in Santaclaus?
i hardly think they refused to change their minds
Politics is way more powerful than religion
same thing
People change their religion to suit their politics
people change their religion to suit their sexual needs 😛
Jonathan Haidt talks about this in the Righteous mind
must be true then
Yep, he has a whole lot of studies and psychometrics backing him up
There's a reason why he's the most famous social scientist.
```There's a reason why he's the most famous quack```
FTFY
Everyone needs to read Coddling of the American mind
truth is what the popular people believe
Depends on what you mean by truth
peoples personal feel of reality
If you mean objective truth, then that's just wrong
Everyone needs to read the progressive era
https://soundcloud.com/misesmedia/sets/the-progressive-era
If you mean Metaphorical "True Enough'", sure
summerize it for me
important take away: big tech wants to be regulated, and you shouldn't want them to be.
Why would they want to be regulated
cuz they can afford it
I can agree with that,
They'll just pay off/loophole the system, but its keeping new businesses out who can't compete with those regulations
summary: only government can create monopolies
The question is can you even regulate them constitutionally
ofc
you just change the constitution
It ain’t that simple
yeah it is 😉
People wouldn’t want to change the 1st amendment just to regulate big tech when there are free market solutions