If faced with critical thinking, people tend to disregard what you’re trying to say and push back to their outlook.

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    Your title is un-self critical and condescending, so your conversations probably aren’t terribly productive in either direction.

    That turn of phrase has never been used by someone conversing in good faith and with an open mind.

    Edit: Jack Nicholson excepted

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      Seriously, that title is worded like a straight up attack. Such a question, while open ended in who would consider what truth, still leads to the same outcome: engagement based purely on outrage and “proving the other side wrong.”

      I sometimes wonder if people post things like this with the intention of filtering through comments to block people that post their political viewpoints in response. If thats the case, I would conssider this a very effective and intelligent post. However, I don’t think that this is the case.

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        My goodness that sounds like a lot of work lol.

        “Can’t handle the truth” = I’m gonna write you off as a whole person and call you weak and stupid because we disagree.

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      On one hand people often don’t like to hear bad news or an idea that means they have to do a thing or face a problem. On the other hand how a person is told the idea is a big part of a negative reaction. Often there is no reason to tell someone the thing at all.

      I’ll be straight forward if someone asks but I’m not “brutality honest”. OP sounds like the “brutality honest” without anyone asking type.

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      He needed a good title. You cant judge a persons conversation skills based on that…