2024 Tropical Weather Thread

superchuck500 said

I think that's a fair assessment - but I'm not sure it makes it any less stupid. It's certainly counter-evolutionary (devolutionary?). When an idea is true because it is real, no one is telling you what to think - it's not an exercise in control. It's an exercise in understanding the reality of the world you live in. Choosing to reject it purely as an assertion of free will is nothing other than elective stupidity.

For example:
Caveman 1: Don't step off of that cliff, gravity will pull you down into the rocks and you die.

Caveman 2: I choose not to believe in gravity, not because I don't think it's real but because I refuse to be told what to think.

Narrator: Caveman 2 has died on the rocks.

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Yes it is definitely stupidity. And that's simply because it is ignoring reality at the most basic level of reason & understanding.

Perhaps that's why such people choose to adhere to conspiracies that do not affect them directly. For example; a 'Flat Earther' knows that he will never actually fall off the edge of the earth. So he can continue to tout that there is a definitive edge of this 'huge disc' without any fear that he could die that way. But if there was an off-the-wall theory or conspiracy that would clearly endanger them in a direct way, it wouldn't be one that he would choose to challenge.

The only thing that is 'evolving' here is the stubborn desire to oppose all authority. We live in a society today where people will disagree simply to disagree, because they do not wish to conform to anything. It's their definition of being 'their own person'. How sad.