If faced with critical thinking, people tend to disregard what you’re trying to say and push back to their outlook.

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    1 year ago

    Not sure if this is helpful, but my take is:

    Because in most cases, what is assumed to be “truth”is subjective. If you’re talking political. More often things are blurred with regards to truth as most things tend not to be empirically true, but instead, emotionally true.

    For example;

    “All conservatives are Nazis!”

    This is inherently untrue. Yet I see every day- people who believe this to be the absolute truth. Same thing with-

    “All liberals want to do is make our children gay!”

    Also untrue. But when you try and correct them, they will almost always entrench themselves within their own version of the truth and disregard any form of critical thinking.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t think there is such a thing like making someone gay.

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          1 year ago

          I have a friend who had surgery to become gay. He was a straight guy before the surgery, and now she is a lesbian.

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          That’s sort of exactly the point. People believe it to be true, and it’s sort of impossible to prove them wrong. Nature vs Nurture still isn’t proven either way, regardless of how strongly you feel one way or the other.

          The simple fact that someone believes it’s possible to “make people gay”, almost necessarily leads to them believing there are people out there actively doing it.