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202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Soldier Mind Set and the Scout Mind Set

The soldier mind set leads us to defend really liger aunde, dramatic noin of my words. Beliefs can be deep rooted, well grounded, built on fact, backed up by arguments. But there's a difference between being certain that some one else is wrong and being certain that your view is 100 % right. And so i don't want the existence of relatively clear cut cases to detract from the very real and often very important, you know, messy gray area cases.

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