• ipitco
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    5 days ago

    I prefer making my own opinion of things. Consuming biased media will make me think a specific view is the truth, but there can be more to it

    Biased media makes you think an opinion is the truth, and that’s dangerous for your critical thinking abilities

    • crapwittyname@feddit.uk
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      4 days ago

      I disagree. Critical thinking abilities are the antidote to thinking an opinion is the truth.

      Illiterate medieval serf with no critical thinking abilities: “it is written, therefore it must be true”

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      Modern, educated person subjected to gigabytes of information at their fingertips: “I’ll need to see a primary source for the info in this video because it looks like this YouTuber might have an axe to grind”