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I'm glad you made this point, because it's a maxim I live by: You can't change people, you can only encourage them to change themselves. To effect change, peop
by philipov 9y ago
I'm glad you made this point, because it's a maxim I live by: You can't change people, you can only encourage them to change themselves.
To effect change, people must be open and willing to change themselves. And I don't think most people are, especially the older we get.
If you want to change people's minds on a big scale, it's by educating the young, and creating incentives towards your way of thinking. It requires institutional power, and it takes generations.
- thisacctforreal 9y agoI like the first two paragraphs but I'm not sure I can swallow that third one. As a direct counter-example: I think a lot of older people have given up their previous views on privacy in exchange for using Facebook and doing other commonly-intrusive internet activities. I think I'd replace the paragraph with "If you want to change someone's mind, try demonstrating an alternative with better trade-offs". I'm hoping the GDPR will be a demonstration to Canadians & Americans that demanding a right to privacy is a viable alternative to the status quo. Social networks, advertising, and privacy are able co-exist, just perhaps not with the existing trade-offs allowing free-as-in-beer and know-me-better-than-myself-"features". edit: reordering paragraphs edit2: reorganization