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Enigma@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoMy mom was one. Didn’t realize until I was older, and long after she died. But yeah, she only voted Republican because she was anti abortion. She had an abortion and suffered from unintended side effects and didn’t want other women to experience the same. I get where she was coming from, but she definitely had the wrong idea with banning abortion.
Oddly enough, it was a comment on Reddit that opened my eyes to everything. Something along the lines of “Dems don’t want women to have abortions. But we’d like the choice if need be.”
mookulator@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wow I’ve never heard of someone wanting to ban a medical procedure all together because they experienced an adverse effects of it. Thanks for the view into a psyche that I didn’t know about.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Scientists can tell with like 80% accuracy what the political identity of an American is… just from a brain scan.
If the prefrontal cortex is larger and more active, that person is likely to be empathetic and use higher reasoning to control their emotion. Those people overwhelmingly vote Dem.
If the amygdala is larger and more active, then that person is more likely to feel fear or anger and act based on those emotions without thinking.
Then there’s the 20% where they’re just kind of average and it’s a coin toss.
That is why a woman can view her individual experience decades ago with an abortion and use that to rationalize not letting any woman get one now.
She’s not empathetic enough to understand other women may be in a worse spot than she’d have been if she kept.
She isn’t using the critical thinking to understand decades of medical advancement means it’s a lot safer now.
But she is still in fear of her bad outcome.
And she’s still angry she had complications.
If it doesn’t make sense to you, it’s because you’re brain isn’t working the same as the other side. The tragedy is only one side is usually able to understand it. The other side just keeps ranting about crazy shit because they’re constantly terrified or pissed off about a hypothetical.
Nimrod@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Do you have a source for this?
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
Pretty sure is just one of those studies did on an n = 20 us college students by another group of students that has been never replicated.
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 1 year ago
Really? You want to try and play that card mr mengele?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At no point did I say this was genetic or couldn’t be changed…
If you weren’t a dick, I probably would have explained that for you.
Do t think you’d have understood, but I’d have given it a shot.
Erk@cdda.social 1 year ago
This is the kind of factoid you shouldn’t spread unless you’re prepared to back it up with a lot of hard data and sources, since you’re essentially arguing biological superiority over your opponents. Very little comes from that
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I already have…
nbcnews.com/…/study-brain-scans-reveal-your-polit…
And it’s not biological, the brain changes even through adulthood.
But my comment is already long enough, it’s not my fault most people don’t understand how brains work, but I bet I can guess the political leaning of all the people who just got mad and replied before scrolling down.
astraeus@programming.dev 1 year ago
The source article is a small research article sampling young adults who were students in college. The article itself addresses the scope of its findings aptly:
I don’t think it is a good idea to base your opinion of political bias and brain chemistry on a single article’s speculation.
astraeus@programming.dev 1 year ago
This is the foundation for the research article listed in the March 2013 NBC article.
Fourth paragraph of introduction starts:
Same paragraph concludes:
Conclusion of the introduction:
Honestly, I think their finding is more accurately conveyed with this sample:
The argument here is not so much that brain chemistry predicts political bias, but rather that political bias can influence brain chemistry.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s absolutely a thing. It’s partly because nobody listens to “1% will have a complication” because it’s so small and it’s probably going to be nothing, and outside of a handful of procedures it’s not really gone into depth. But when you’re that 1% and it’s bad it’s hard to acknowledge that the gamble was probably a good bet actually or at the very least it could’ve been and you made the choice. It’s especially rough when like abortion neither option has a high risk of serious complications, but the active choice is less risky. That one’s kinda rough on our neurological risk processing