• RustyShackleford@literature.cafe
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    5 months ago

    It won’t change anyone’s mind. Even if their dear leader tells them to, they won’t do it. Mulish behavior is extremely hard to break with only, reason.

    • m_‮f@discuss.onlineOPM
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      5 months ago

      You’re probably right. There’s ways to change people’s minds, but for most people most of the time, that’s stuff like social consensus instead of reason. Social consensus can be changed by pushing narratives (i.e. propaganda), but is that ethical to do, even if the science is clear on an issue? Once you create a lever of power like that, it tends to get used for things beyond its original purpose.