We don’t. People are social. We care about what the people in our community think, whether it’s factually accurate or not is inconsequential. Those of us wastin

We don’t. People are social. We care about what the people in our community think, whether it’s factually accurate or not is inconsequential. Those of us wasting our lives arguing on the internet in the pursuit of truth are a tiny minority of atypical people. People yearn for the warm embrace of affirmation, not the cold hard truth challenging them at every turn.