Dealing with people who don't like facts

[GMDino]

(10-27-2016, 09:17 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: People are dumb, and you can't take facebook too seriously

(10-27-2016, 09:27 AM)hollodero Wrote: Opinion first, facts later. First people know what they believe. Facts then are ignored, doubted or forged in. That's sadly not news.

People who base their opinion on facts become a minority in democracies. It's the most dangerous thing.

(10-27-2016, 09:27 AM)Au165 Wrote: Don't talk to people you know about politics or religion, they both tend to make normally rational people quite irrational.

98% of the time I let things go.

This exchange happened because of something else that was posted that was so wrong it made my head hurt.

After awhile it just becomes watching them twist in the wind to try and support a position with no basis in reality.