Changing Minds Debate
Discussions revolve around the normalcy, value, and criticism of people changing their opinions or minds based on new information or arguments, often defending openness to revising views on complex issues.
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It's an odd time when someone is criticized for changing their mind based on new or changing information.
A person can change their mind, attitude & perspective on a dime. The willingness to disbelieve in sentience is fantastically remarkable, as a grevious oversight.
Changing your mind on complex issues like this is normal I'd say.
To be fair, people change opinions.
Related ongoing thread:It's weird that people get mocked for changing their minds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491735 - June 2023 (179 comments)
It might be arrogant, but not supremely. Maybe the line leaves me out of deciding the content I can consume. I'm pretty stupid out of my fields of interest anyway.Joking aside, it's taken me lots of effort, but if anything is important to me, my life, or my loved ones, I double check it, even if I agree with it or I'm naturally inclined to believe it. I've also learnt to love to stand corrected, and to say that I'm wrong.But that's unfortunately above w
That's a good argument, it's really making me reconsider previously held beliefs
I have changed opinions on certain topics, for example my thoughts about gun control and libertarianism are more nuanced than years ago.I can articulate many viewpoints extremely clearly which I don't happen to hold, which means if I am in a debating mood I can much more precisely debate someone, rather than simply dismissing them.I repeatedly realize my own opinions are sometimes based on unexamined assumptions, which no matter how many times I realize it and try to root it out, keep
The harder it is to learn, the more it takes you to change your mind. It's hard to see things without bringing baggageAlso, the irony of complaining about HN holy wars becoming just another trigger to continue! I'll do my part - whichever side you are on - you are wrong.
you are already looking at it with negativity and it will be near impossible to change.Well, same can be said of you: I actually wanted to see reasoning and am willing to change my mind on the subject (well, actually not even change, as i don't have a single fixed stance on it because I know I lack the insight), but you're not providing information, instead responding with more negativity :]