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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Humans are more influenced by emotions than logic, which means that critical thinking alone may not convince them. Only those who are receptive to logical reasoning can be persuaded that way.
Your title is un-self critical and condescending, so your conversations probably aren’t terribly productive in either direction.
That turn of phrase has never been used by someone conversing in good faith and with an open mind.
Edit: Jack Nicholson excepted
People don’t like being wrong.
Being wrong has long been viewed as a form of weakness.
I’m weak several times a day.
I can only read the beginning of his tweet/story as someone who is not signed up to Twitter. He also says there is a link somewhere, but I don’t see one.
yeah linking to Twitter threads is a complete mess now since Elon fucked that up
damn it’s cool that nitter is working again!
Here’s a fun thought experiment: you’d think that it’s because people don’t like being told they’re wrong, because you’d make them seem stupid in public and their pride & ego will kick in and they’ll do everything so that they don’t appear like they’re wrong, but what’s funny is that they have the exact same attitude also when online with anonymous pseudonyms. It should in principle be easier to just say “mea culpa, I’m wrong” online since you’re dealing with random internet strangers and no one knows who you are, but no, you will very rarely see that.
