If people are not taught critical reasoning skills early on, it becomes very easy to get them to a place where they believe very strongly that they are possessed of a sacred truth that must be defended. Human beings run on very buggy and easily exploitable software.
People are by and large not taught critical reasoning skills.
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"The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
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