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Conscious reasoning is carried out largely for the purpose of persuasion rather than discovery we are also trying to persuade ourselves
These numbers are not a matter of “good people” versus “bad people.” They represent power and control by a racial group that is in the position to disseminate and protect its own self-image, worldview, and interests across the entire society.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
But one thing is certain: every day in America, thousands of people appear before a jury of their peers and hope they will be judged fairly, when in reality they are judged by human brains that always perceive the world from a self-interested point of view. To believe otherwise is a fiction that is not supported by the architecture of the brain.
Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Fairness is a function of effort and effort is shown through transparency.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Fairness is a function of effort and effort is shown through transparency.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Nudge.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
But categorizing people by their politics is another way that our stereotypes of people are much more rigid and extreme than the actual people themselves.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
logicality