• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Way too many people think we live in a black and white world where if something is bad, anyone opposing that something is good.

    And if they stopped to think about it, they’d realize why that was silly. Drilling for oil is bad. That doesn’t mean using whale oil instead is good.

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      3 months ago

      If people stopped to think about things a bit more deeply than gut reaction and black and white, life would be a lot better for all of us.

      But that requires education and critical thinking skills. And in the USA, we have an entire political party that is actively against the fostering of critical thinking specifically because they will cease to exist if people think about the world beyond their fox news screedcast for more than 10 minutes.