Both Sides Are NOT The Same
You ever notice the people saying both sides are equally as bad used to wear a red hat?
There is a psychological reason for that.
Psychologist Roy Baumeister at Florida State University spent decades studying how people protect their self-image when they are forced to confront being wrong. What he found was that the brain will do almost anything to avoid a direct admission of failure. Instead of accepting the full truth, it rewrites the story into one where nobody was right. That way the person never has to say I was wrong and you were right.
He called it Threatened Egotism.
Here is how it…
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