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If you shame people, they dig in their heels. If you care about stopping the pandemic, you need to create an environment in which someone can safely stop belie
by flaque 5y ago
If you shame people, they dig in their heels.
If you care about stopping the pandemic, you need to create an environment in which someone can safely stop believing their falsehoods.
You actually have to convince people, regardless of whether or not they deserve your effort in convincing them.
- falcolas 5y agoHuman history, and studies of human behavior, show that “convincing” people with logic and facts largely doesn’t work. Their worldview needs to change. And little changes worldviews better than a personal existential threat. Like death.