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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/04/2023 17:42, bill w wrote:<br>
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ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span
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overrides reason almost every time</span><br
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the vast majority of people. spike</span><br>
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face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">How do you know this,
Spike and Ben? What is the basis for your belief? Just a
general cynicism about humans? 'People are getting
dumber'- a question on Quora this morning for me. My
answer - how do you know this? "Well, doesn't everyone
know these things?" Nope.</font></span></div>
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face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">A better sentence: many
times irrational ideas override reason. But it varies
from person to person, just like anything else. I think
perhaps extremists at either end of the spectrum will fit
the statement better. Statements that apply to most of
the human race are very difficult to make in a valid way.
bill w</font></span></div>
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<font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">No argument from me. "many
times" ~= "almost every time". And yes, of course, there will
always be outliers. Evolution guarantees it.<br>
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Ben<br>
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