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Originally Posted by Jameson  It's only human. Of course my advice to you right now is biased upon my worldview, but it's less biased, you know? |
This is off topic but I wanted to bring this up*. Why are we biased against bias? Why do we think that bias needs to be avoided? I disagree, I think that bias is a great trait among humans provided it is founded on rationality and not on our passions. I am biased against Big Government. Whenever someone says, "there ought to be a law ... ", or, "the government should ... ", I will initially always be against such a position. What I have is a bias, but I do not see why this bias that I have is a flaw in me. My position is based on stuff that I read and my reasoning. Therefore, the bias that I hold is a rational one. I view bias as a method of throwing out mentally all the false ideas without the needs to go through in your head. Thus, bias is like a filter against ideas that you should be more skeptical of.
*)I know I told this to someone once but I forgot who, maybe it was you, but I do not think so.
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Originally Posted by NonCommAlg you should see what George Clooney, Jack Nicholson or any other brilliant "actor" have to say about women not some unqualified guys such as Freud and Nietzsche! haha |
I like to make fun of groups that take themselves too seriously, such as, feminists, enviromentalists, and vegetarians. I know that feminists hate Freud so when I want to say something about women I try to quote Freud because I know it offends the feminists.