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Popper was right about the link between certainty and extremism
- logicalmonster 4y agoI don't mind it when people are very confident or even completely certain of their political beliefs, but they lack credibility to me when they don't have a good understanding of what the other side actually believes or understand their rationale for having certain beliefs. Personally speaking, I see a lot of criticism of libertarians or conservatives that boils their motivations purely down to hatred or greed or some other Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain level motivation. You can have a conversation with somebody who is certain of their beliefs but at least tries to understands the other side's motivations.
- hindsightbias 4y agoPerhaps if they had a good understanding of their own beliefs. 30 years ago, a libertarian would have read Road to Serfdom or would know who von Mises was. Today, they usually have no idea what I’m talking about. Certainty is google deep today.