The more I learn, and the more versed I become with society, the harder and harder it becomes to see what is "good" and what is "bad".

The most confident I ever was that I was "obviously correct" was when I was 20.

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inigyou 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Be careful. Some actors are deliberately muddying the waters of good and bad. For example, vaccines are pretty good, but some groups want you to be unsure if they're good or bad.

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Cyph0n 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Precisely. Bad actors desire complexity because it leads to indifference. The “good” side therefore needs to fight that complexity with simplicity and empathy.

“Unions can be corrupt” or “You don’t need unions to get your voice heard” is the kind of rhetoric that leads to disinterest in unions over the years.

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jolmg 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It can go both ways. Bad actors can simplify because it leads to indifference, by way of generalizations. "black" = "bad", "illegal immigrant" = "gang member". It's how racism works.

> The “good” side therefore needs to fight that complexity with simplicity and empathy.

Empathy, yes. Simplicity doesn't normally lead to empathy; complexity does.

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I read that left-wing people are consistently found to be much more able to process conflicting ideas than right-wing people are.

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consensus1 an hour ago | parent [-]

40 years of experience has taught me that absolutely no one is less able to process conflicting ideas than left wing people are, and it's not close.

	▲	jolmg an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Political extremes will be extreme. Centrists can hold both.

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think "unions are always good" is worse than "unions can be corrupt or good, here's how to push for good"

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ragequittah 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This reads somewhat like the older I get the less morals I have. If you have a hard time seeing the wild amount of bad in the world right now you're probably profiting from it in some way.

	▲	jolmg 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or you lack perspective. Also, it's not about not being able to see any bad, but some things that obviously seemed correct, stop seeming so obvious. Reminds me of that clip where a man in some TV show gets slapped by the woman host and he slaps her back. Then a bunch of men from the audience come to beat him up. It's one thing to have the moral "never hit a woman" and "protect women", but if women abuse these views to mistreat and humiliate others without consequence, that doesn't seem right either. It doesn't seem right for the men to have beat him up for defending himself. They thought they were being moral, but they weren't. Sometimes moral views can require nuance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4akMaeZ0-k&t=58