You strip them off “good” status, and they will self-correct. If you tell them that being truthful is integral part of beeing good, they will be truthful just to preserve their status.
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"Good" people will often prefer to remain in alignment with their peers over alignment with their outgroup even when the ingroup is incorrect. The solution to this problem is either preference falsification or selective stupidity. You usually cannot dictate the group values.
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It is also annoying to deal with someone who behaves as if they are correct all the time and doesn't fully listen to other people's views or understand their perspective due to the belief that their own beliefs are superior because they want to serve truth.
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I know, right? My friends get filtered by being able to deal with the perceived self righteousness of someone who is annoyed by his perception of untruth, but that might be too limiting. I need to learn to listen to things that are probably false without an impulse to object...
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What do you mean by truthful? Can you give an example of someone being truthful compared to someone being good?
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Belief in evolution is a topic that is hotly contested in some political camps.
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Honestly, this sounds as if you believe that morality is provable as if you could derive a concrete situation goodness from a set of axioms. That is idealism. Which axioms do you idealize? Are those shared with the other camp at all? Some agree to "idealism is not good".
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Ethics is the principled negotiation of conflicts of interest under conditions of shared purpose. Ethics is rational. Do you have an alternative in mind?
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It's complicated. Of course you can also use the allegiance to people to truth to alienate them from their ingroup so you can get them to sign up to your nefarious purposes. Not all red-pilling is benevolent.
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