"I agree, but we live in a world where people select data that supports their views and call their opinion about it facts"
Exactly! And this is a serious problem. Because it leaves us with a lot of people who are badly misinformed about the world they live in and therefore can't make rational, informed decision.
"I agree, but we live in a world where people select data that supports their views and call their opinion about it facts"
Exactly! And this is a serious problem. Because it leaves us with a lot of people who are badly misinformed about the world they live in and therefore can't make rational, informed decision.
To be exceptionally clear, I'm not saying that rational informed decisions will always jibe with my own. It's perfectly possible to look at the same facts and come to different conclusions or have different priorities. This is the whole point of living in a pluralistic society.
My point is that we are looking at different "facts" and therefore coming to *irreconcilable* conclusions. And this is unsustainable. Just saying this is unfixable is pure defeatism.
"I agree, but we live in a world where people select data that supports their views and call their opinion about it facts"
Exactly! And this is a serious problem. Because it leaves us with a lot of people who are badly misinformed about the world they live in and therefore can't make rational, informed decision.
To be exceptionally clear, I'm not saying that rational informed decisions will always jibe with my own. It's perfectly possible to look at the same facts and come to different conclusions or have different priorities. This is the whole point of living in a pluralistic society.
My point is that we are looking at different "facts" and therefore coming to *irreconcilable* conclusions. And this is unsustainable. Just saying this is unfixable is pure defeatism.