So, you;re perfectly fine with major political policy decisions being made based on an admittedly emotional basis of fear rather than pragmatic, realistic policies driven by accurate information and rational thinking?
That you would actually entertain this as serious is the most disturbing. It'd be like saying, "according to the data, since liberals have little sense of fear, this explains why they blow through money like a coke whore without giving any regard to the economy."
I don't know, does that strike you as a legitimate conclusion, or is that a predetermined and biased conclusion? Not to mention unnecessarily offensive.
If I were a betting man, I would say the results say more about the researchers than it does about the test subjects.
But personally, if it is true that a specific set of political positions are closely correlated to an overabundance of fear caused by a brain abnormality, I'd be a little disturbed.
Upwards of 80% of the US military is comprised of politically right-leaning troops who go off in to the throes of battle every day. Do roadside bombs and a daily dodging of bullets smack of cowardice to you?
The bottom line is this study is a joke, or at the very least, the article concerning it is.
It doesn't say a word about how they detected fear or how they arrived to such lofty conclusions. And as pointed out by xongsmith, the control was very weak and it dripped of confirmation bias.
And how would they judge me as a social liberal, but fiscal conservative? Does that mean I'm halfway less fearful than a neo-con.
It's a joke... I can't believe anyone is entertaining such piss-poor research.
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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