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What do you do when people don't care?
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this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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The only relevant question is - are you wrong?
Is your take actually valid? Based on sound imperical data? Is not fallacious? Does your reasoning stand up to scrutiny? Is it fact, or a belief? Is it a justified belief?
Ultimately you shouldn't need to be coddled if you have any allegiance to the truth.
It's one thing if a 3-year old gets 2+2 wrong. It's another when it's a 33 year old. Would you waste energy on that, or would you assume that the 33-year old doesn't care enough to bother no matter what approach is used?
The unfortunate reality is that democracy as a vehicle for progress is a failure because not enough people have an allegiance to the truth, nor have the basic epistemological tools for determining what's knowledge, what's belief, what's a hypothesis, what's theory or what's valid evidence or any idea of what the scientific method even is, or what an axiom is etc.
They favour their delusions (I don't mean religion specifically) over truth.
Truth doesn't feel good. People want to feel good.
Psychologically it's not different than biology in the sense that people don't want to work out and eat healthy... they want to be lazy and eat energy dense food.
Yes but like exercise, intellectual exercise feels good too. The question is why do some people not do it.