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I'm not raising strawmen, I'm asking you things that quite logically follow from your statements. All I can say at this point is that your theory is definitely

I'm not raising strawmen, I'm asking you things that quite logically follow from your statements. All I can say at this point is that your theory is definitely in conflict with my observations of the world. So much so that I see the theory as wishful thinking about how things ought to work than how they actually do.

lisper 12y ago
My apologies, I misread what you wrote as a statement rather than a question (I swapped the words "you" and "are". Maybe I'm developing late-onset dyslexia.) So let me try this again: no, I am not saying that "successful people don't cling to beliefs that have a lot of evidence against them". I am saying that a society that considers it virtuous to maintain beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary is going to be less effective at solving problems than a society that does not consider it a virtue, and so problems will tend to go unsolved more than if the society did not consider this a virtue. What observations of the world have you made that contradict this?