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Originally Posted by Dawnstorm
I agree with the latter, but disagree on principle with the former ("you should overcome any bias you hold"), though I might pragmatically agree on that as well depending on circumstance (though this is too complicated and off-topic in this thread).
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If you agree that arranged marriage is "an archaic concept that boils down to little more than slavery" than aren't you effectively "biased" against it?
Also, I have to frank - I find it silly to expect humans to overcome
any bias that we may have. We're human beings, not perfectly objective machines. It's when we
think we're holding no bias at all that we are actually at our
most biased, in my view - Because it gives us a false sense of "higher ground" compared to others.
The fact is that we all have culturally/socially-ingrained biases, and the most we can realistically hope to do is to recognize them in ourselves and try to temper them/account for them.