(March 27, 2014 at 3:25 pm)Tonus Wrote:(March 27, 2014 at 3:20 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: Phobias sometimes stem from how a person views a situation, ethically. If he feels "it's wrong," there is no argument that will satisfy him.
I am of the opinion that we usually do not know the reason we take a particular stance on many issues, and since we are wired to HAVE TO KNOW, we mostly just invent motivations and then try to fit ourselves into them. A person may have completely irrational reasons to want to force the world to fit into his narrow viewpoint. Not knowing what they are, he will invent rationalizations that seem logical or at least defensible.
Not impossible to change a person's mind in that scenario, but it's not easy since we do not really know what arguments to use when they don't even know why they believe as they do.
That's true. Then it becomes an issue of how much effort you're willing to put into changing someone's mind. Sometimes, it's a matter if ignorance, which is fixable. If it is a matter of prejudice, it's not fixable by anyone but the person with the phobic issue.
