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walnut 🌱 @walnut@thesoftestpaws.net
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highly reductive question but not hypothetical So what's the psychology of someone being utterly catastrophically irrefutably wrong? re: homeopathy, bigotry, flat earthers, ghosts/spirits/magic/witches etc. In most cases, you cannot convince someone set in their ways otherwise, doesn't matter if you appeal to emotions, science, or the best rhetoric there is. Their logic is bad and they must be able to see that on some level, but it doesn't matter to them.
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highly reductive question but not hypothetical. Religion, death. @walnut I don't have an answer, but I can see how the belief of reality actually conforming to those irrational feelings (irrational, but their own, the person's own) gives them a feeling of "safety" regarding how the world is.

Applied to religion, for instance (I won't discuss here if those beliefs are right/true or wrong/false in absolute terms, that's a topic for a different thread), I can see how it may be "easier" to face your own death if you believe that there's a heaven and a paradise at the other side, than if you believe that death just means that the plug is pulled out and there's nothing, only biological inactivity. Therefore, it seems logical that people with those beliefs will fight tooth and nail to defend their perspective, since their peace of mind regarding death is on it.
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walnut 🌱 @walnut@thesoftestpaws.net
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highly reductive question but not hypothetical Call me mean but at some point you can't treat someone as acting on rational reasons
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