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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.

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