• @ItsMeSpez
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    1010 months ago

    This is not only true on the internet. People are more interested in preserving their assumptions than learning something.

    • balderdash
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      310 months ago

      You’re right, and it takes humility to admit that you’re wrong and someone else is right. Personally, I will try to argue for my belief based on the reasons I’m holding it in the first place; but if I can see that I’m wrong and everything I’m googling is matching what the other person says, then I’d rather have beliefs that match reality than be right.

      Case and point: https://lemmy.zip/post/7995540?scrollToComments=true

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        That’s the funny thing: I’d you change your beliefs to match reality then you are right. You just weren’t before.