Here's why conservatives and liberals differ on COVID-19.
"Conservatives might at least in part be less likely to wear masks because they don't feel as threatened by the virus itself,
If they talked about the virus as having a motive, as being a palpable enemy that is seeking to attack humans, says Zane, maybe you get greater buy-in from the start on the part of conservatives."
https://phys.org/news/2020-11-liberals-differ-covid-.html
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Over and over humans make the category error, this problem is somebody’s fault. We give agency to events, beliefs, and random occurrences. This is universal, a feature, not a bug of human culture. Of course the far left demonizes Trumpisam, of course the far right decries fake news. We be the humans.
What is at stake here and now is not overcoming our cognitive biases of ascribing agency. But the very real lack of admitting we have a problem.
@corlin Well you could argue that the virus’ main motivation is to make more viruses, like humans procreate to make more people. But other than that, that’s the only similarity humans and viruses share. A virus barely registers as living.
@corlin Course you could also say viruses are opportunistic and as humans we can be too in order to eradicate the virus. Since it’s barely alive, killing it should be NBD, right?
@Siren_six
Yep.
I agree.
But this is more about language, than intent.
If we used the language of agency, giving the virus a (false) agency, then more people will feel the threat, and act accordingly.
"The virus is out to make you sick"
@corlin I guess my point here is, I think you can have both language and intent.
@corlin From whence do conservatives derive this magical knowledge of the king virus? They seem imbued with knowledge beyond human = T.E.L.A.H. -- The Evolutionary Level Above Human. 😎