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180. Andy Norman — Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think

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Just Asking Questions

I like distinguished between good and bad faith, by which think you mean assume that the other person is engaging with you in good faith. So there's actually an expression called jacking off, just asking questions. Andado nine 11 truthers do this to me all the time. Just asking questions, how d building seven have fallen? You knowu i see where this is going, or you nont climb it. The nier, i don't know much about that, but i just, like columbo, i just have this one little question her,. But they're not actually acting in good faith. They're trying to draw you down a particular pathway. It s here would be

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