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0 pointsexe341y ago0 comments

> Are you suggesting Humans can't do formal reasoning?

most of them can't. they actively vote against their own interests and everybody else around them. if you confront them with facts and figures, they ignore it and resort to emotional appeals.

just because you can find one child that can play chess at age 4 doesn't mean that the rest won't just eat the pieces and shit on the board.

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atommclain1y ago

I've never been a fan of the argument of how voting against your own interest is some gap in logic. To me it can mean multiple things, one could be not understanding the implications of what that vote could mean, the other is a full understanding but wanting to put "the greater good" above the self. I would not want to live in a society where everyone only votes for their own interests.

exe34OP1y ago

it's not the voting that's the question here, it's that it's based on fallacious arguments, to the point that they will still go for it even when it's against their own interests and their neighbours.

yunwal1y ago

It would be practically, if not literally, impossible to formally prove that you voted for/against your own interests, if you could even define what that means. Formal reasoning means a specific thing.

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