• @bstix
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    43 months ago

    Unfortunately arguments also don’t work very well. People only change their mind when their mind changes. They basically have to figure it out themselves. No amount of external arguments can ever do that.

    The way to encourage people to change their minds is simply to question them until they start thinking about the topic, and then give them access to information.

    • JackFrostNCola
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      33 months ago

      My favourite ‘thought trigger’ point is from Bill Burr, it goes something like: “lets for a second say that the earth is flat, then what possible reason could there be for governments, scientists, airlines, internet warriors, etc have for convincing you that it is a sphere. What do they have to gain by you believing this?”.

      • @bstix
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        23 months ago

        I’d probably start much simpler. “Why do you think the earth is flat?”

      • @yamanii@lemmy.world
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        03 months ago

        This is also how people discover is some religious thing, so what a famous dude in my country did to convince flat earthers was pointing out that the bible talks about the moon. It can’t be a satanist conspiracy now.