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In my experience this is rarely the case. It's much more likely you're misunderstanding their position or missing some undisclosed nuance. Often I find this ju
by lugged 5y ago
In my experience this is rarely the case.
It's much more likely you're misunderstanding their position or missing some undisclosed nuance. Often I find this just comes down to most people lacking the vocabulary or ability to refine their positions consicely enough to form coherent and non contradictory positions.
If you take the time to work through their contrictory statements with them you'll likely find there was no contradiction in their mind, instead, there was just some nuance that got lost in translation.
- ceejayoz 5y agoMy experience has been the opposite; that people are great at making excuses for entirely contradictory sets of opinions they deeply hold.
- lugged 5y agoThis is usually a sign they don't really have the ability to define their position conscisely enough. There are a lot of stupid people in the world, but most of them are able to see reason if a) they're willing, and b) you're willing to help them get there. The problem is that you're probably not going to get the answer you want so you have little incentive to put in the effort.