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4 days agoEmpathize as in understand motivations and perspectives: 8
With some effort to communicate, I can usually understand how someone got where they are. It’s important to me to understand as many ways of being as possible. It’s my job to understand people, but the bigger motivation is that it bugs me if I don’t understand the root of a disagreement. Of course, this doesn’t mean I condone their perspective, believe it’s healthy/logical, or would recommend it wholesale to others.
Good observation. One of the protections from this kind of appropriation is peer review (in every sense). As the amount of information available for review has shot up, the available time of peers capable of reviewing it has not risen to compensate. Additionally, we’re developing more and more ways to compromise peer review itself. I think this is (in part) to blame for the rise of fascist elements in the world. This pressure (combined with the ratcheting up of climate change realities) has put humanity in a precarious position.