It’s to my benefit if other people take the time to fix their broken and bigoted family members. I wouldn’t recommend someone sever times. Just because you have had experience with stubborn people who can’t change doesn’t mean most people are like that.
I haven’t tried to unbreak anyone because I haven’t known any consiratorial thinkers. But I do listen to the QAA podcast, which studies the effects of conspiratorial thinking and interviews researchers and authors and it’s pretty clear that only the conspiracy nutter can pull themselves out. No amount of logic can turn them around and it’s a form of self-harm to try.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
good idea, i’m sure they’ll get better on their own
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
They likely won’t get better. And that’s why you cut ties. You can’t change the way they view the world. They have to come to that on their own.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
It’s to my benefit if other people take the time to fix their broken and bigoted family members. I wouldn’t recommend someone sever times. Just because you have had experience with stubborn people who can’t change doesn’t mean most people are like that.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
I haven’t tried to unbreak anyone because I haven’t known any consiratorial thinkers. But I do listen to the QAA podcast, which studies the effects of conspiratorial thinking and interviews researchers and authors and it’s pretty clear that only the conspiracy nutter can pull themselves out. No amount of logic can turn them around and it’s a form of self-harm to try.