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> as long as we can counter them by rational argument "You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into."

• inglor_cz 4y ago
  Yes, you can always say that this time, Popper's caveat does not apply, because the opponents are too far gone. Perhaps we should stop treating Popper or anyone else as an oracle of truths. He was a smart man, you can disagree with him nevertheless - in both directions.
• naasking 4y ago
  > "You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into." I disagree 100%, and the fact that atheism is steadily growing, even among formerly devout Christians, the admirable success of Daryl Davis convincing KKK members to renounce their own hate, and the numerous examples of collaboration for a common cause between groups that should hate each other, like the KKK and the black Panthers, all demonstrate that this claim is flat out wrong. Instead, what your cute catchphrase typically represents is an excuse to justify your own hate for an outgroup. Often understandably borne of frustration from impatience to learn about or inability to understand the motivations or experiences of an outgroup, and a subsequent assignment of negative qualities to them, because obviously you're not the problem (the "bias blind spot").