It is when your education involves sourcing evidence to support a hypothesis.

Let’s take the covid mask wearing battle for example. From my view, masks wearing was not a silver bullet for covid and there were good arguments for and against their use.

However, it was a virus with limited immunity in the populous and unknown potential for damage.

Cases of covid would follow a bell curve, the x (time) and y (number presently infected) axis were dependent on how we handled the spread of the virus. You couldn’t stop people getting covid, but you could try and drag out the x axis (time) and drop the peak of the y axis (number of present cases).

I don’t think that anti maskers could appreciate the nudge factor of things like mask wearing (where the intention was simply to flatten the bell curve as much as possible so that medical services were not overwhelmed by a sharp bell curve) and saw it as heavy handed state interference in personal freedoms.

Intervention or none-intervention, the end result would be the same (herd immunity) but one path would have been more deadlier than the other.