SilverFang01 Wrote:I don't know why you keep holding to your "skepticism" in the face of all the studies and scientific consensus.
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A guess would be there's a false humility in denial: if we are a minor blip, we couldn't possibly cause that much harm.
What it points to, though, is a violated sense of justice ("they didn't have to, why should I?").
Compare it to the US national debt: no one (in politics) is willing to stand up and say "this is going to hurt, but we have to do it, and it's going to take a long time!" Instead, it gets punted, "Let 'future me' deal with it later."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"Being told to be 'open minded' about something is usually a code for 'you're not going to like this, but I want to subject you to it anyway'. Conversely, being told that you are 'closed-minded' is generally a means of asserting that 'I don't like the fact that you're proving me wrong, so I will pretend that your failure to agree with my argument is a philosophical deficiency'." - RationalWiki
"Being told to be 'open minded' about something is usually a code for 'you're not going to like this, but I want to subject you to it anyway'. Conversely, being told that you are 'closed-minded' is generally a means of asserting that 'I don't like the fact that you're proving me wrong, so I will pretend that your failure to agree with my argument is a philosophical deficiency'." - RationalWiki