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Assume a person has some deeply held beliefs that they have had for a long time. Then they get conclusive evidence that their views were wrong on the issue. Based on what you think of human nature, is that person more likely to keep their beliefs and find ways to rationalize away the facts, or change their opinion to fit the new facts?

Keep the beliefs, ignore the facts
Change viewpoints to fit facts
Keep an open mind
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Submitted by : cdubatrc
Submitted on : Sep 23,2005 12:46:04 am
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A question on human nature.


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This is a good question because I get accused of ignoring it, and I accuse others (steelhamster) of "protecting the hypothesis" which is the concept that people have so given over to their beliefs that, if they turned back it would be totally destructive to their life work, psyche, whatever.

I think everyone probably does it to some extent.

Very good question. I am guilty of changing my views when there's a convincing enough argument to refute them.

But it has to be a damn good argument.

Great ballot.

Most people are closed-minded to the facts, no matter how convincing the argument. Case in point- the '04 election.
I question my beliefs all the time, I still very uncertain, but lean more at this time toward the faith I was brought up as.

People say I rationalize when confronted with evolution and the sciectific evidence, but I don't think it's rationalizing, I think it's being able to incorporate the 2.

Some might call me a hypocrite, but hey, that's my right, leave me alone.

With the politics, I have totally changed my views about Bush , I still consider myself more of a conservative than liberal, but so many things The President has done, that I have major problems with.

I think it depends upon the individual's predispostion to logic. Some poeple are logical and quite accepting of new evidence, some are not.
Very good ballot.

^This isn't a bad argument, but are you saying that things like logic are inherent? Kind of genetic?




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