From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 18:35:23 MST
>> If you enter a situation where the other side is determined
>> not to be convinced, including such things as rejecting as
>> lies any facts you supply, refusing to evaluate any logic you
>> provide, and so forth, then you can not change the other
>> person's mind, at least at that time on that subject. In those
>> situations, if convincing the person is truly important, the
>> solution is to find what channels for input said person's
>> memes have left.
There's another option: re-examine your desire to convince
that particular person. Write them off as an evolutionary
dead end, and use their own intransigence as a datapoint for
your own future reasoning and for argument with those whose
brains function more rationally.
New ideas become popular not only through re-examination, but
also by the holders of old ideas simply dying off.
Hopefully in a society of immortals, intransigents will have
longer to discover their errors due to a greater divergence of
their point of view from reality over time, so death won't be
the only means.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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