Bonus Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from page 207 of the late Hans Rosling’s deeply insightful 2018 book, Factfulness:

The blame instinct makes us exaggerate the importance of individuals or of particular groups. This instinct to find a guilty party derails our ability to develop a true, fact-based understanding of the world: it steals our focus as we obsess about someone to blame, then blocks our learning because one we have decided who to punch in the face we stop looking for explanations elsewhere.