Giorgio wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:01 am
sd_matt wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 3:16 am
1. I must like to bang my head against the wall of the super religous types...the greens amongst others.
2. I like the idea of their Tweets having comments like mine there to remind them what mental defects they are. If you say it is petty I won't argue. I guess I just utterly despise people who are so dishonest.
I share your pain, I have been doing the same for 30+ years and I was able to open the eyes to a couple of people, but 99% of the time it was just a stressful experience. Nice to see that there are other people like you willing to do the same.
Dismaying, isn't it, so much ignorance. Also, how many reject or disregard any data-point conflicting with their previous positions.
But a have to argue that this has nothing to do with religious beliefs, mental defects, or dishonesty, it is just part of Human Nature.
Humans like to think of ourselves as intelligent and rational. We often use both words as synonyms, but they are very much NOT.
Intelligence is a quality, of which all humans have some amount.
Rationality is a skill, and it doesn't come included in the "human package". Rationality is the capacity to determine the best possible output from a certain set of inputs. To be rational we need: 1) the will to work the problem, 2) good information, 3) intelligence, and 4) the know-how to use it.
Being rational is HARD, so much so that we humans only practice it occasionally.
Switching positions on any topic is an added effort most try to avoid.
"The problem is not what we don't know, but what we do know [that] isn't so" (Mark Twain)