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the idea here is to understand why people believe something that is (consider by you to be) wrong.

• bonoboTP 6y ago
  That can have lots of reasons,like they grew up with it, were indoctrinated in school/college when they had little experience or critical thinking skills and stay due to sunk cost fallacy or tribalism, or it satisfies some deep psychological need to feel superior or virtuous etc. Plenty of reasons besides them analytically arriving at a position through a lot of thinking.
  • kqr 6y ago
    Sure, but all of those things could apply to your thinking too, maybe even just as much. Figuring out who suffers more from those kinds of biases is often harder than just saying, "yeah, it's definitely the other guy."
  • chordalkeyboard 6y ago
    This is all true for everyone. The point is to get a better understanding of those reasons and why those reasons led this person to these beliefs. Plenty of people grow up and change their minds and then have different opinions than their parents indoctrinated them with. Plenty of people rely on the reasons you mentioned above to dismiss other people's views without critically examining their own views, which are subject to the exact same reasoning process.