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> I agree with you that sometimes people just won't listen to anything they don't want to hear, and if you wish to have them consider your idea you have to let
by cabalamat 16y ago
> I agree with you that sometimes people just won't listen to anything they don't want to hear, and if you wish to have them consider your idea you have to let them come to the same conclusions you did organicly- that is, by planting a seed.
Aren't most people like that, at least to some extent? As I see it, everyone has a bullshit detector, through which all external communication is filtered. They have to have this, because it's not in one's interests to be fooled when one is lied to. But when a person generates ideas in their own mind, they aren't passed through the bullshit detector, they are just accepted.
- dhimes 16y agoBut some people are more open to being proven wrong. There are some who don't mind being challenged so long as at the end of the day they are smarter than they were at the beginning. It doesn't mean that they aren't skeptical, but rather that they are willing to consider the advice of those who have a very different mental model of things. I think the writer offered excellent advice. Now, as I said I don't know Stallman, so maybe he responds to 10 of these per month and is just sick of it. But even then, that's not a cool response IMO. If he has defended this before, point to a link or something.