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Polarization Forces You to Categorize All Evidence to Your Side

A bizarre polarization dynamic forces a person, once they take a side on issues like police killings, to categorize all instances bearing on the debate as falling on their side, even when irrational, because people immediately draw broad implications from any single statement, so the shorter version is that nuance is underappreciated in certain contexts and consequentially so.

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Speaker

Paul Bloom

Evidence Quote

the the shorter version of all this is nuance is underappreciated in certain contexts yeah quite consequently so

Source

16 - The Dark SideMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:24:40 AM

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