RE: Dumb Rhetoric
April 21, 2018 at 4:23 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2018 at 4:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Sometimes, peoples' defensiveness about being made to "look small" is more compelling than any desire or need to have communicated something accurate or true. It's an ideological variant of the sunk cost effect.
Let's try a demonstration.
No one, other than one's self, makes anyone "look small" by stating patently inaccurate things. We all do it, from time to time. It's the easiest thing in the world to say "ah, look at that, I was wrong about that, thanks man." When we can't do that.....-this- is what makes us, or our position, seem small.
What do you think RR? Is holding an inaccurate belief about a triviality important enough to act as a sunk cost for whatever it is you were hoping to communicate in that conversation?
Let's try a demonstration.
No one, other than one's self, makes anyone "look small" by stating patently inaccurate things. We all do it, from time to time. It's the easiest thing in the world to say "ah, look at that, I was wrong about that, thanks man." When we can't do that.....-this- is what makes us, or our position, seem small.
What do you think RR? Is holding an inaccurate belief about a triviality important enough to act as a sunk cost for whatever it is you were hoping to communicate in that conversation?
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