(May 6, 2025 at 2:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 6, 2025 at 2:29 pm)Jackalope Wrote: That would require them be be able to discern between what's factual and what's not. Good luck with that.
Which is what makes them willfully ignorant.
Boru
Early and premature identifications act as information filters which automatically discard all sorts of useful knowledge.
It therefore takes people who identify as religious longer to learn because they have to overcome such problems too.
They would be better off if they had been taught nothing rather than being taught what was incorrect, however socially useful bad ideas can be.
Many of such people can't be helped because of the sunk-cost fallacies in their thinking: "But I'm committed to this, but I built my relationships around that."
