So How Do We Fight This Bias?
We can start with the idea that people “have some essential drive to be morally good, while emphasizing that work needs to be done to realize that with some reliability in practice.”
Acknowledging our belief in a good true self can be a way to appreciate our capacity for goodness. Then, we can focus on "exercising it on a regular basis."
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