@tokubirb @AwareIncel if your choices are to be wrong in agreement with people who are kind to you or to change your mind to be right in agreement with people who currently hate you, most people will choose to be wrong
“Facts don’t change minds, friendship does!” James Clear explains how convincing someone to change their mind is actually about convincing them to change their tribe. “Perhaps it is not difference , but distance that breeds tribalism and hostility.” Relevant in times of rising social polarisation.
278 / Justice and the Veil of Ignorance
We’re friends with people who see the world the way we see it, who share our views and our belief set. No matter how good a match someone looks on paper, that doesn’t guarantee a friendship.
Simon Sinek • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
As Steven Pinker says, People are embraced or condemned according to their beliefs, so one function of the mind may be to hold beliefs that bring the belief-holder the greatest number of allies, protectors, or disciples, rather than beliefs that are most likely to be true.
Kevin Simler • Crony Beliefs | Melting Asphalt
We don't believe things because they are correct. We believe things because they make us look good to the people we care about.
sari azout • Principles for Sharing on the Internet
False beliefs can be useful in a social sense even if they are not useful in a factual sense. For lack of a better phrase, we might call this approach “factually false, but socially accurate.” When we have to choose between the two, people often select friends and family over facts.