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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Half the country runs believing in Fox News, and our literacy is below the sixth grade level, well before reasoning is introduced to the curriculum. I consider myself a fairly logical person, and I see the idea of operating on reason-first (I phrase like this for clarity, as emotional-based choice is valid after processing after reasoning is established) virtually never followed, even when claimed. I have lost multiple jobs because of this exact problem. I am an advocate of it in all situations.

Outside of my bubble, I have watched universities purge philosophy, and all philosophy courses, from their systems. There's a shift in the definition of True, with the "post-truth" movement. You can see how much reason influences the public with how they prosecute minorities, where bigotry is believed over decades of statistics.

Reasoning is non-existent here. Moot, no, reasoning is not of no practical importance, but it cannot be depended on here at this point.