I like to engage with people of differing opinions! Why don't others elsewhere?

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[–]Sun_bear 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Our society can't allow people to be wrong. It's weird, so many people claim to worship at the teat of science and yet science teaches us that knowledge is based on evidence that is constantly evolving - a theory being disproven is a good thing, because now we understand more. But people become emotionally invested in their theories, their theories become part of their identity. They're not merely a person who thinks right or left wing policies are the best, they ARE a right-winger or a left-winger. At that point an attack on their opinions is an attack on their identity, so they simply cannot countenance that they might be wrong.

[–]v3r3na 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, I think you're on to something. Somehow people want to identify with one ideology or another and like to put labels on themselves. I guess it's a group thing, people want to belong somewhere.

I don't think right and wrong is always objective, though, especially in politics, because it often depends on your moral system. I don't believe there's an objective way to be morally right.