As long as you realize this is just an opinion, okay. As soon as your opinion becomes, you're all racists for not agreeing with me, then you're wrong.
There seems to be a belief that reading books with bad things in them (killing, racism, and fascism etc.) leads to people becoming killers, racists, and fascists etc. 2/10
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This belief is not support by research. At best there's some correlation, but correlation is not causation. 3/10
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One could speculate that the reason for the correlation is driven by the fact that people will read books, watch films that confirm their beliefs. 4/10
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But that's still not causation, otherwise, given the substantive number of works with bad things in them then everyone would be bad. 5/10
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From the perspective of those arguing this is the case, this seems to them to be self-evidently true.
But the evidence says it is not. What evidence? 6/10
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But the evidence says it is not. What evidence? 6/10
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The evidence that comes from recording the improvements in Western civilization to our quality of life from education, technology, and freedom.
Forex look for data from the World Values Survey. 7/10
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Forex look for data from the World Values Survey. 7/10
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I'm generally optimistic that the world is not going to hell in a hand basket.
But pessimistic about the future because of people touting ideology over evidence. 8/10
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But pessimistic about the future because of people touting ideology over evidence. 8/10
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Made worse by the politicization of of discussions around values.
Forex: The belief that all media is political, even the media that tries to be apolitical is still making a political statement. 9/10
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Forex: The belief that all media is political, even the media that tries to be apolitical is still making a political statement. 9/10
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To have discussion one must have more than opinion, one needs to do research.
But the fact of the matter remains that most of us do not have the wit and wherewithal to do anything than offer opinions. 10/
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But the fact of the matter remains that most of us do not have the wit and wherewithal to do anything than offer opinions. 10/
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