Changing ones mind about a subject

[GrandizerII]

You think someone changed their mind about circumcision in the circumcision thread? Looked to me like everyone stuck to their views.

It wasn't that last thread on circumcision that I ever posted in nor the other circumcision thread I posted in. It was in fact a thread that was about something else, but things went off topic and it ended up being about circumcision, and I remember Lutrinae (Kitan at the time) and I first having an exchange about it some years ago along with someone else who was agreeing with me at first and then realizing at the end that perhaps circumcision isn't really that bad after all.

[mlmooney89]

So some people know but for the sake of this thread I will back story real quick. I was raised racist and it wasn't until a few years ago that I turned over a new leaf. Now granted the whole thing was a long slow process where I was getting away from the racists that raised me, realizing that they were the bad guys, and that I needed to be a better person. Still though I clearly remember one debate that I finally was like nope I'm done, you are right and I can't believe I've been like this. It wasn't even on racism in the way I normally saw it (whites against blacks) it was because I was throwing a hissy fit over why blacks could be proud of their heritage. My now sister in law (who is not Hispanic but married to a Mexican) laid into me about minorities and why it's important for them to maintain an identity instead of letting the white culture push them out. I was floored and yes it was after the debate that I changed my mind fully but it was throughout it that I was sitting there realizing it.

[Edwardo Piet]

I do feel like when people change their minds it is often a final straw type thing. It's not like one argument or experience alone changes everything but some things do seem to be the final straw. I do think that breaking a bad belief is rather like breaking a bad habit.

[Shell B]

I think people change their minds all the time in all kinds of different ways. I wouldn't venture to guess that no one changes their mind on the spot based on one argument. There's been too many arguments over the course of human history for me to even posit a guess.