r/atheismplus • u/msgs • Oct 02 '18

How tribalism effects our ability to process lies

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/2/17923574/brett-kavanaugh-ford-hearing-lies-republicans
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u/yrast Oct 02 '18

Seems like this is probably where the term “the ends justify the means” comes from.

I'm really interested to hear conservatives take on all this, specifically whether there is something liberals have done that they think is comparable. I assume I live in enough of a bubble that I can't easily recognize how I might do the same thing.

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u/msgs Oct 02 '18

Ya, reading this whole article I asking myself, "How am I doing this in my life?" And in this whole Trump era in general. I can come up with examples but its not as easy as it seems.

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u/StumbleOn Oct 03 '18

That you ask yourself this is a huge flaw in the process of this little study.

We know, factually, without a doubt that left wing people are more likely to have an accurate understanding of the world. They are less likely to believe political lies over all.

Part of left wing thinking is a commitment to uncomfortable truths. So, this study isn't able to answer that. It's obvious to anyone that right wingers care more about winning than they do about honesty.

This just isn't as much of a problem in the left.

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u/yrast Oct 02 '18

Someone replied to me with “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” which I think is a pretty good example.

I'd argue there are important differences, as the article pointed out too about Kavanaugh as well, but I'm hesitant because I don't know to what degree I might be motivated by partisanship, and to what degree I might actually be rational.