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Everyone has a vested interest in continuing to believe that which they already believe. To change your opinion requires acknowledging that your old opinion, th
by rdiddly 7y ago
Everyone has a vested interest in continuing to believe that which they already believe. To change your opinion requires acknowledging that your old opinion, the one you perhaps espoused publicly and persuaded others into believing, was wrong. It's embarrassing. So most people tend to put that reckoning off until the last possible moment, even in defiance of hard evidence in some cases.
- Paperweight 7y agoThen do other people now trust you less because you were wrong, or do they trust you more because you correct yourself?
- rdiddly 7y agoWelp to borrow from gool ol' Neil Peart, those who wish to be would probably pick the latter; but those who wish to seem would put more emphasis on the former!