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These are such good questions:

* Are you capable of entertaining real doubt about your beliefs? Or are you operating from a position of certainty?

* Can you articulate the evidence you would need to see in order to change your position? Or is your perspective unfalsifiable?

* Can you articulate your opponents perspective in a way that they recognize? Or are you straw-manning?

* Are you attacking ideas or attacking the people who hold them?

* Are you willing to cut off close relationships with people who disagree with you, particularly over small points of contention?

* Are you willing to use extraordinary means against people who disagree with you?

(These are the “discernment questions” Megan Phelps-Roper poses in “The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling”. The podcast much recommended in entirety.)

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BREAKING: Is a better world possible? Let's not get ahead of ourselves; this mindset can lead to dangerous things, and may harm the economy, says a new study published earlier this week.

@LadyDragonfly True, but it forgets to mention the devistating effect this has had in violent acts, and rape cases. They replaced the death of a child or two and traded it for tens of thousands of rape and other victims... Not really a win IMO.

@freemo @LadyDragonfly you can probably get people to not snap anymore by fixing social issues. you can't magically get rapists and other sociopaths - which always exist - to not rape or violate others anymore.

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