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Sargon
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Do you have an example of cognitive bias that is not an optical illusion?
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Sargon
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Yes, I see those cognitive biases in arguments on the internet.
And to have people be able to "work around it", like recognizing when they do it themselves or other do it, they need to study Philosophy and be exposed to a diversity of... opinions.
I don't see how diversity of ethnicities got to do anything about it, unless you say there is something inherently different in people from different ethnicity that affect the diversity of opinions.
It's kind of like how activists complain that black children don't have black teacher to identify with.
Does that mean that white and black people are so different that a black child cannot identify with a white teacher?
Edit: I think that you are correct that people have "toxic prejudice".
An ideology is not toxic, you can think about an ideology you don't agree with without believing it.
So it's more an emotional prejudice than that some ideas are toxic.
I used to call it "hidden agenda".
For instance, you would see a lot of Feminist hate white men or hate the West.
So, they don't say it up straight "We hate you".
What they do is that on every subject matter they argue things(different things) that their end result is bad for white men.
This is hidden agenda.
For instance you could say that some Feminist pro for immigration from Syria, actually want it because they hate white men and want to replace them, but they would make excuses like it's good for the economy(proven to be false) or they are perscuted and poor(most of them are work immigrants and not even kids, 30 males).
So this is a hidden agenda that make them choose a different argument for every subject that hides their true intent.
It's like, you want an end result of B, but you don't want to tell why you want that. So instead you argue something else that will lead to the same end result without having to disclose your real reason.
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You can tell what is their true intention if you do intersection of several issues.
They have different arguments for different issues that don't seem to be consistent and make sense.
For instance Feminists might say they want to end violence against women, yet they support Shaira law or Muslims which treat women badly.
So from all their different argument you can extract their true intentions, kind of like how you would find the real wave form if you have enough samples.
This is not introspection, there is a fallacy for almost anything.
I could say you are using the fallacy fallacy. Which you view everything as a fallacy.
Edit: And sure, not all Feminists. I am talking about third wave Feminist, which also don't like the old generations of true Feminists.
The old Feminist will be gone soon, and then Feminism will be what it is now with young people.
A more recent example. Ben Affleck has become a sort of Feminist and some sort of pro women/pro equality guy. He has been vocal about it.\
Yet he had many incident throught his career of sexual harrasment, maybe even assault, and indecent exposure in front of women.
This is a guy who does becomes a white knight to cover on his own behavior.
Someone smart said that it's easy to say whatever you want but it's not easy to do.
So people could say all sort of things that sound noble, that doesn't mean they actually act like that.
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What is your concern with "toxic ideologies". You are the one trying to prove you can tell other people's ideologoy and thoughts are wrong and toxic and yours are right and noble. You are the one encoyraging overeach and control.
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Sargon
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If cognitive bias is inherent to Human biology then you cannot do much about it. Your approach wouldnt work.
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Sargon
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Yes, but the lines case is a geometric problem, while arguing something non mathematical isn't as straight forward.
We don't really have tools to measure the toxicity of "ideologies" and even if we do, what if they would measure that open borders and things you are for are also toxic?
Edit: Also people have different taste. Like some people like different kind of foods, they might like also different kinds of ideas.
People are born different, almost no two people are identical(unless we are talking about identical twins and even then they have differences).
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The "one Democracy" thing.
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