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You cannot reason with people who are taught since birth to be unreasonable and simply believe. Go to any sort of forum with people of these crazy positions, tr

You cannot reason with people who are taught since birth to be unreasonable and simply believe. Go to any sort of forum with people of these crazy positions, try to reason with them, it is impossible. You can't dispel it, it doesn't matter if you are the most patient and we'll explained person in the world - you cannot overcome belief. These groups are intentionally malicious, they fabricate information, group together to spread that disinformation, and use the democratic system against itself to advocate for the times of lord's and surfs. Just this week the local school cancelled a vaccination clinic because people believe covid isn't real and that the vaccine is there to put chips in you. That "the lord Jesus" is their immune system. These people will change the law from underneath you if you let them. They don't care about the truth.

quantumwannabe 5y ago
Outside of the covid chip comment, which is a specific example, everything you wrote applies to yourself and others who agree with you as well. When you're trying to convince someone to take the vaccine who says they don't want to because covid isn't a threat, they don't see you as an enlightened mind backed by science who wants to save lives like you see yourself, they see you as an arrogant sheep brainwashed by the media who doesn't understand statistics and relative risks. Since you clearly don't understand their perspective, it is no wonder that you can't convince them to listen to yours. Try listening to people you want to convince before trying to convince them. This approach doesn't have a 100% success rate, but it has a higher chance of success than your current approach has. The catch is you have to be open for them to convince you that your closely held beliefs are wrong. If you're not, and you dismiss everything they say out-of-hand, how can you expect them to be open to your ideas?
- devwastaken 5y ago
  If they were interested in the truth it's not hard to find. They don't want that, and believe "facts" are false because they believe it so. Not because they have any actual knowledge. They cannot be convinced despite a plethora of opportunities given, not due to a lack of them. That's how I know quite well that they don't care about the truth. If you were to argue with these people you'd be eaten alive, as would anyone else. This isn't chess, they make up the rules and knock over the pieces as they go. Again, no care for the truth. You cannot change that. The only thing we can do is outnumber them.

quantumwannabe 5y ago

Outside of the covid chip comment, which is a specific example, everything you wrote applies to yourself and others who agree with you as well. When you're trying to convince someone to take the vaccine who says they don't want to because covid isn't a threat, they don't see you as an enlightened mind backed by science who wants to save lives like you see yourself, they see you as an arrogant sheep brainwashed by the media who doesn't understand statistics and relative risks. Since you clearly don't understand their perspective, it is no wonder that you can't convince them to listen to yours. Try listening to people you want to convince before trying to convince them. This approach doesn't have a 100% success rate, but it has a higher chance of success than your current approach has. The catch is you have to be open for them to convince you that your closely held beliefs are wrong. If you're not, and you dismiss everything they say out-of-hand, how can you expect them to be open to your ideas?

devwastaken 5y ago
If they were interested in the truth it's not hard to find. They don't want that, and believe "facts" are false because they believe it so. Not because they have any actual knowledge. They cannot be convinced despite a plethora of opportunities given, not due to a lack of them. That's how I know quite well that they don't care about the truth. If you were to argue with these people you'd be eaten alive, as would anyone else. This isn't chess, they make up the rules and knock over the pieces as they go. Again, no care for the truth. You cannot change that. The only thing we can do is outnumber them.