> Instead of dictating facts, you start a dialogue and ask questions that encourage critical thinking. If you are empathic, patient, and non-threatening, they s

> Instead of dictating facts, you start a dialogue and ask questions that encourage critical thinking. If you are empathic, patient, and non-threatening, they sometimes (sometimes!) start making realizations on their own that change their opinion. Check out Street Epistemology if you haven't already, as this is exactly what they're doing. They ask random people on the street if they'd like to pick a belief and discuss it. Any belief is acceptable, often it is politics or religion, but sometimes people want to talk about ghosts, or seat belt laws, or karma, or whatever. If the person is interested, they ask questions to try to get them to think about why they hold the belief, how confident they are, and if that may or may not be justified. There are a ton of videos on YouTube of these conversations and many of them are fun to watch. They really do get people to think about things, and most of the time the people leave still on friendly terms, which is a difficult thing to do when questioning people's beliefs. https://streetepistemology.com/ https://streetepistemology.com/