Are You Pro Emigration or Anti-Emigration?

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Deep canvassing encourages tolerance, whether it's about sexual preferences or religious differences. It does raise the question if you wanted to, could you increase intolerance? There's a lot of that going on in the world. The idea bein stret Epistemology is, do you have a robust, complex, nuanced view of this issue? Do you have an understanding of the epistemology that would be required for you to have a concrete belief abut this thing? If the answer is no, no one does, no matter how much you've considered the issue. But we should never be afraid of somebody having a more complex and new one's view of anything. And when it comes to

To the Founding Fathers it was free libraries. To the 19th century rationalist philosophers it was a system of public schools. Today it's access to the internet. Since its beginnings, Americans have believed that if facts and information were available to all, a democratic utopia would prevail. But missing from these well-intentioned efforts, says author and journalist David McRaney, is the awareness that people's opinions are unrelated to their knowledge and intelligence. In fact, he explains, the better educated we become, the better we are at rationalizing what we already believe. Listen as the author of How Minds Change speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why it's so hard to change someone's mind, the best way to make it happen (if you absolutely must), and why teens are hard-wired not to take good advice from older people even if they are actually wiser.