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GliderGuider

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8. Nope. People change themselves if they want to.

Reply to Silent3 (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 01:25 PM

Mar 2012

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The most we can do is put out reasons why a different approach might be preferable. What people do with the info is up to them. Communication is valuable, but pounding on people over your perceptions of their psychological deficiencies is about the most pointless form of non-communication there is.

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Dancing around judgment of differing beliefs and opinions [View all] Silent3 Feb 2012 OP

An opinion is an approximation of what is, with insufficient data. It shoudn't be an attitude. saras Feb 2012 #1

I'd express the right to believe (even stupid, crazy things) in a different way Silent3 Feb 2012 #2

The word "judgment" has two broad categories of meaning GliderGuider Mar 2012 #3

A major point of the OP is that people blur those two meanings... Silent3 Mar 2012 #4

That offers a wonderful opportunity: GliderGuider Mar 2012 #5

One other point that might be helpful GliderGuider Mar 2012 #6

Sure you can change others Silent3 Mar 2012 #7

Nope. People change themselves if they want to. GliderGuider Mar 2012 #8

That's like saying the electricity doesn't light the lamp... Silent3 Mar 2012 #9

As you said, change isn't guaranteed. GliderGuider Mar 2012 #10

Good thing I don't feel a need for guarantees. n/t Silent3 Mar 2012 #11