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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by aswanson on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @08:27PM (#12973370)
Feelings don't care about your facts. It's actually amazing that a breed of primates made it this far when you consider how irrational we really are with regard to so many things: who we cede power to, how we judge truth and falsity, etc.
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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by flukus on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:43PM (#12974042)
We didn't get this far despite our irrationality, we got this far because of it.
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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by cghendrix on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:00AM (#12974767)
Interesting. Care to elaborate?
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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by flukus on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:27AM (#12975181)
We're here, so there was some advantage to our irrationality. Hating outsiders helps our children survive for example.

I'd argue a lot of our best inventions required a certain amount of irrationality to create.

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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by aninhumer on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:03AM (#12977048)
No, all you can infer from the fact that we're still here is that it's possible to succeed while being irrational. It tells you nothing about whether we succeeded despite or because of it.
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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by steve_b on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:21AM (#12975818)
I think you may be begging the question. You might be right that we're here because of our irrationality, but using your conclusion as its own argument isn't very convincing.
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