If they were to read a news article of a different political leaning, they would be much less inclined to believe the evidence it presents when compared to an article matching their own political stance. They are evaluating the evidence in the context of who the evidence is from, however this does not make them intellectually compassionate. It could instead be argued that this behavior would make them more intellectually selfish because of their automatic and dogmatic dismissal of any evidence from a source they do not agree with. The key instead to being intellectually compassionate would be for this individual to try to understand why another would have a different political leaning in the first place; how might their own experiences influence the evidence they support? Does this person even fully understand their own reasoning for dismissing the news article’s evidence in the first
If they were to read a news article of a different political leaning, they would be much less inclined to believe the evidence it presents when compared to an article matching their own political stance. They are evaluating the evidence in the context of who the evidence is from, however this does not make them intellectually compassionate. It could instead be argued that this behavior would make them more intellectually selfish because of their automatic and dogmatic dismissal of any evidence from a source they do not agree with. The key instead to being intellectually compassionate would be for this individual to try to understand why another would have a different political leaning in the first place; how might their own experiences influence the evidence they support? Does this person even fully understand their own reasoning for dismissing the news article’s evidence in the first