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Good luck with that. --Georges St. Pierre When someone has a closed reasoning system, even an emotional story will not sway them. It will be waved away as a ra
by braythwayt 7y ago
Good luck with that. --Georges St. Pierre
When someone has a closed reasoning system, even an emotional story will not sway them. It will be waved away as a rare outlier, or something God wanted to happen to that person, or fake news ginned up by Big Pharma, &c.
People like anti-vaxxxers don't just have strong beliefes, strongly held, they have integrated their beliefs into their personal identity, they have integrated their beliefs into their tribal membership, and they have converted them into a persecution complex.
Those three things--personal identity, tribal membership, and persecution complex--brush truth aside like chaff in the breeze.
- jimhefferon 7y agoI have found the Debunking Handbook of some help (it was written about climate science but applies more widely). https://skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-now-freely-available-download.html https://skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-now-freely-a...
- sysbin 7y agoBasically like a person following a religious ideology?
- braythwayt 7y agoYes, except I am not "just" talking about someone following an ideology, I am talking about someone who engages with others who follow the same ideology, and thus gets emotional support from "belonging to the tribe." This is why the internet changes everything about radicalization: It makes it nearly frictionless to find a critical mass of other people who share your ideology and engage with them all day long.