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MEL's avatar
Mar 19Edited

I find the implication of these surveys very hard to believe. Historically, it has been the far left (not far right) that has openly encouraged lying for the cause.

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RenOS's avatar

This is a nice demonstration about the pitfalls of self-scoring. One of the biggest issues in the contemporary mainstream left (just as most hegemonic worldviews beforehand) is the "I'm in favor of everything good, and against everything bad" pretense, never considering or even admitting the existence of trade-offs.

For a simple example, imagine one person saying they're strongly against lying, but then in practice they hard censor everything but the consensus, since obviously consensus=truth so saying anything else is lying.

And then another person saying lying isn't THAT bad, but in practice this just means they allow open discourse and truth-finding (which requires not punishing people who write false things too harshly).

In general imo this kind of study shows us that the current left thinks that they're better people, not that they actually are. And we already knew that. For another real but slightly off-topic example of this kind of arrogance in the college-educated: https://www.themotte.org/post/1189/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/256018?context=8#context

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