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12/7/2016 12:52:24 PM
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In this post-truth world we live in...
As you may or may not have heard, the Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2016 is "post-truth".
[quote][url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/post-truth][b]post-truth[/b][/url]
Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief:[/quote]
As I would like to think most people would agree, typically, when someone posits an argument based on emotion, when there is relevant objective data available, the gold-standard of rebuttal is to make an argument based on what the data says.
However, in this post-truth world we live in now, where people are too easily swayed by what merely [i]sounds[/i] good, how best should we respond?
Do we stand our ground and continue to assert the facts?
Do we meet them on their level with similar material of what [i]sounds[/i] good?
Do we bend the truth, misrepresent the facts, and falsify information if it helps achieve our goals, even if those goals are noble causes; is the ends beginning to justify the means?
I'd be curious to hear about any other stories you have of post-truths and how, if you did, respond to them.
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Editado por Cultmeister: 12/8/2016 12:06:44 PMThe battle between scientific objectivism and beliefs based on emotion has been going on for a long time, and has always seemed to be biased in favour of beliefs. There was never really a golden age of science where people only made logical conclusions and opinions based on what the factual evidence said. People like to think that kind of a world is possible but I really don't think it is. People's views are affected by much more than just the evidence either way and I think it's a bit unrealistic to expect or want people to change that. At the end of the day, giving someone factual evidence that contradicts the view that they probably invested lots of time and effort into believing and repeating, isn't going to change their mind most of the time. But that's not something that's developed over time, that's always been the case.
