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by colechristensen 1743 days ago
Notice this more. When people have a side on a topic they tend to find every excuse for its shortcomings and easily believe every positive.

People seem to have a lot of trouble accepting that things they favor have negative aspects and things they don’t have merit. The world isn’t just good and evil, most of it is striking a balance between positives and negatives and we all need to get better at doing this objectively instead of picking a side and afterwards finding a justification.