What Is Moral Reframing?

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i've seen this recently with a lot of these political lads, and i that i'm seen come across social media for places that i don't live. It's a lack of it's inability to see that you can't make an argument from your moral framework to a person who's in a different moralframework. You have to actually couch the argument in that person's moral framework and their values. And it's a very difficult thing to do. Everything that i've discussed in this long winded answer falls under a giant category called cognitive ympathy. In the book, i use the dress to explain why, how that works, under a framework called surf pad. But

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.