>>11328259Not really. It's just taught me that a large majority of the population (undoubtedly myself included) base their political opinions on a kind of political instinct they have, and that these opinions tend to group together for some reason into 'liberal' and 'conservative'.
I was talking to an otherwise seemingly intelligent guy the other week that was in total denial the world was warming, and I'm not talking about man-made 'anthropogenic climate change', I mean he thought that temperature measurements were a conspiracy. He was also in complete denial that humans may be causing mass extinctions of other species. I'd put him in the irrational 'conservative' camp.
I also had a friend, a biology student no less, that was convinced that every human is born with the same intellect, and that the only reason why some people appear to differ in their intelligence is due to their upbringing. He had an totally bizarre cognitive dissonance between natural selection (which as a Dawkins fan boy he had to believe in) and his political beliefs that we're all equal, with only a cruel and unjust social system causing the poor and the uneducated to remain poor and uneducated.
As for my own opinions, learning science has pretty much just made me second guess all of my assumptions to the point where I believe that I probably don't know anything and I'm a bit of a retard. I probably am since everyone else is, right?
