What are the primary causes behind people disagreeing with you? Why do whole discourses, movements, and possibly even academic fields exist that embrace models and values you find plainly incorrect? Is it stupidity, subconscious material interests, conditioning, personality...
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Almost everyone with a strong position & dismissiveness to their opponents in given debate has some implicit general theory of Why The Other Side Embraces Wrongness. One of my favorite past times in reading different camps or theorists is picking out what this theory is for them
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The flipside of such theories is of course What Is The Unique Thing Of Value In Yourself Or Your Team. Often folks will be like "obviously these folks are wrong because of their class interests" when they're in the SAME class, and the implicit theory is one of personality.
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Where does "Everyone else is wrong because we're biologically wired to reason according to utilitarian and pragmatic purposes rather than according to absolute truth, and I, an absolute lunatic miscreant, have no sense of self-preservation OR social grace holding me back" put me?
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