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Why do most people refuse to accept that they are wrong (feddit.ch)

submitted 11 months ago by Cannizzaro@feddit.ch to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I have come across a lot's of people like these. like 99% of them. Sometimes it makes me think twice if what i am saying is wrong? What's wrong with them. Is it so hard to swallow your pride and acknowledge that the other person is speaking facts? When they come to know they are wrong they proceed to insult/make fun of others to save their ass. Just why?

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[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

Yup, and when most people are a certain way, odds are you are too. I try to keep an open mind as much as possible because it's very hard to identify your own biases and it would be naive to believe that I am the exception to human nature.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

i actually find it reasonably easy to identify my biases, it's just basically impossible to directly act on that knowledge.

if i realize i'm actually probably in the wrong i tend to just sorta.. slide into the shadows and disengage, which is at least better than continuing to insist that i'm correct and just digging in deeper.. Then in the future the brain tends to have let go of it and people have forgot what was said previously and i can upgrade to a more correct take.

[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

And this is the normal thing how it works Just not online because what’s said there doesn’t fade away. It just keeps up standing there regardless if the author since then changed their mind.

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