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You can get centrists over to your side, or people with loosely held beliefs. You aren't getting 99% of the extremists. Proselytization likely works most effec
by mym1990 3y ago
You can get centrists over to your side, or people with loosely held beliefs. You aren't getting 99% of the extremists.
Proselytization likely works most effectively on the above groups, and while it might be a big win to convert 1 X believer to a Y believer, you could probably just convert 10 non-believers into Y much more effectively.
Deprogramming sounds exactly the opposite of 'empathy and patience'.
- Retric 3y agoI bring this stuff up to promote empathy and patience. Yelling at the uneducated may be enjoyable but it’s not effective. On the other hand understanding why people come to these conclusions can help you minimize the number of people coming to wildly incorrect conclusions. Because the issue isn’t just climate change alone, we also need to deal with antibiotic resistance, corruption, infectious diseases, and all the other complex problems faced by modern societies.
- mym1990 3y agoAgreed! Depending on your definition of 'modern society', I would say that pretty much all of those complex problems have been around for as long as humans have found a way to organize.