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It's often very difficult to determine another person's actual motives are.

It's often very difficult to determine another person's actual motives are. In this particular case, there's no way to know whether someone takes a side because of their bias, or has a bias because their honest opinion led them to invest a personal stake in it. If the arguments are actually good, it doesn't matter what motivated a person to make them. Casting aspersions on motive is just a cheap way people avoid dealing with good arguments they don't like, perhaps because of subtle biases of their own.

Posted by DennisP on Jun 7, 2015, 2:49 AM

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It's often very difficult to determine another person's actual motives are.

DennisPJun 7, 2015, 2:49 AM

It's often very difficult to determine another person's actual motives are. In this particular case, there's no way to know whether someone takes a side because of their bias, or has a bias because their honest opinion led them to invest a personal stake in it. If the arguments are actually good, it doesn't matter what motivated a person to make them. Casting aspersions on motive is just a cheap way people avoid dealing with good arguments they don't like, perhaps because of subtle biases of their own.

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