BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year

Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by gsk22 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:41PM (#28148181)

It's delusional to believe you can form political beliefs without emotion coloring the decision in any way. In fact, a rational, logical being would be well aware of how emotions guide our behavior at a subconscious level, and that we can never be totally free from emotion-based decision-making.

That doesn't mean we've slaves to our emotions, or must make irrational decisions based on our whims.

But it is a foolish thing to say you are 100% free of emotions in your views, especially when that incorrect view is wielded as a cudgel against opposing viewpoints (which we apparently aren't even "capable of explaining").

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by friedman23 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:47AM (#28152066)

> But it is a foolish thing to say you are 100% free of emotions in your views

No it's not. You just make all these statements that are baseless. I can say my political beliefs are based on rationality because my political beliefs are simple.

I never said my views are free from emotion. I said my views are 100% based on reason. I vote in my direct self interest, my values are based on my self interest, my goals are to advance my self interest.

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by labawi on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:15PM (#28158898)

I wonder whether you interact with other people, and if you do, what's in your self interest WRT their material and emotional state, free time etc, and then their that of their contacts, etc.

E.g. Is it in your self-interest, that people live in a system where 1/300 are toiling away till they can't, so a guy can sit on a rocket? Is it an incredibly simple answer?

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