It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. And to ask the right question, one must first unlearn the comfortable certainty that one already knows.
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Your political view should be based on not how this would work for you in your current position in society, but imagine you are behind a veil of ignorance. You are picking policies for a society and then everything's going to be scrambled up and you're not going to know where you fall on the spectrum.
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We assume that what's in our head is plain to see to everyone around us. But the thoughts and feelings we have are invisible to others. And when we forget this, and communicate as if our inner world is on full display, conversations go wrong.
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