Anonymous #2 9w

I’d say you’re dead wrong

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Anonymous #1 9w

You really think stubbornness or being reluctant to admit you’re wrong are traits strictly associated with conservatives? You’ve never met anyone on the left who was like that?

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Anonymous #2 9w

Never said that Lol. Just particularly disagree with your free thinking portion. Historically leftist individuals have been pushers of free thinking…

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Anonymous #2 9w

Also I see way more leftists taking accountability than anyone else

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Anonymous #1 9w

What you’re saying and what I’m saying aren’t mutually exclusive. I would argue that even if it’s proportionally less of them than conservatives, there’s still plenty of people on the left who just kinda think what they’re told to and don’t like to admit when they’re wrong. To some extent that’s human nature

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Anonymous #2 9w

Regarding free thinking???

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Anonymous #1 9w

Yes. Two people can believe the same things with one person coming up with all the ideas and the other just eating all that up. It doesn’t make them both “free thinkers.” Especially with all the political discourse on social media nowadays, a large part of our population basically just buys into what shows up on their feed. That doesn’t have to be untrue for what you said to be true

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Anonymous #2 9w

Again just to clarify you’re disregarding all of history involving leftists and political change because YOU don’t think leftists are free thinkers because of social media discourse?

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Anonymous #2 9w

The fact that you used more than one logical fallacy is absurd. OPs original post was clearly generalizing the republican population

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Anonymous #1 9w

No, I’m not actually. Feels like you’re kinda just proving my point considering you made a complete straw man out of what I actually said.

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Anonymous #2 9w

I think you don’t know what a strawman is my guy.

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Anonymous #3 9w

There is no fucking logic in this post dude it’s based entirely on someone’s vibes. All I’m trying to say here is that there’s plenty of people in this world who don’t like to admit they’re wrong and I don’t think it’s a strictly conservative trait. Do you care to actually point out what logical fallacies I made?

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Anonymous #1 9w

I understand full well what a straw man is dipshit. I said there can be people on the left who are both progressive “free thinkers” and also those who are not but still ascribe to the same views. Those can both be true. You said I was “disregarding all of history” and yada yada. I can’t prove neurologically that humans in general just don’t like to admit they’re wrong but I have to imagine there’s something to that

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Anonymous #2 9w

So far you have used straw man, as hominem, appeal to ignorance, and appeal to probability. Furthermore, as #1 stated free thinkers have always tended to be on the more liberal side. This is because the right has normally boxed themselves into the religion aspect of things. This leads them to have a false confidence and belief in something that has yet to be proven. When evidence is shown to disprove their beliefs i.e. evolution, the Big Bang, etc. these theories are quickly dismissed

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Anonymous #3 9w

Can you actually point out where I used those? Your entire argument is just vast generalizations about “all free thinkers think this way” and “conservatives all think this way.” I think inherently free thinkers tend to have differences in their views. And again, none of this actually is mutually exclusive with my statement that “it is human nature for people to not want to acknowledge when they’re wrong.” Having leftist views does not inherently mean you actually think critically about things

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Anonymous #2 9w

U just used a generalization and a straw man in your last comment. You have moved your argument away from OP and my original claim. If you reread my comment you will realize that you have to generalize when talking about a group of people because not everyone is the exact same. However, when a large majority of the population tends to be free thinkers (liberals) and the other tends to have a more constricts worldview (conservatives) then, yes. In turn, the generalization is made.

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Anonymous #3 9w

You keep saying I’m using all these logical fallacies but you’re not actually explaining WHERE I am using them. And you can’t pretend that generalization is a logical fallacy and then hinge your entire argument on a generalization. If you look up in this thread you will see that I’ve maintained my point this entire time that I think humans by and large don’t like to think they’re wrong. I don’t think it’s only a conservative trait

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