If you’re sure you already know what other people think, I guess there’s not much point in asking them their opinions? You’re not going to listen to their answers anyway.

All you really want to know is what category to put them in.

But I guess for prioritizing the happiness of the friend group, some amount of ignorance is needed if someone in the group is ultimately going to model the world on "they kill and deport or they don't" given enough information to make that declaration, and eventually a person on the other side is encountered?

I understand that some things can be more important than just having fun though, down to personal values.

"To be ignorant" sounds like a moral failing on its face, but I feel it is increasingly becoming required in some circumstances with the explosive amount of information available to subscribe to nowadays.

See, this is the problem. People don’t vote for individual policies, they vote for candidates.

The shamelessness with which some commenters openly display the exact aggressive tribal behavior discussed in the article should be studied.