Hear them out. Ask them to convince you and mean it.
Trying to seriously consider other people's ideas.
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- Aug 2021
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And you won’t convince anyone to feel the way you do if you don’t respect their position and opinions.
It's extremely important to get to know ideas that are different from ours especially when we try to convince others. if we only care about our own ideas, we cannot see the bigger picture of the whole situation.
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In other words, you have to recognize that the Other Side is made of actual people.
I agree
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Headlines like “Casey Anthony found dismembered in truck” go viral via old-fashioned schadenfreude — even hate.
Good example of illustrating the phenomenon that only to attract people regardless of the authenticity.
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The misinformation is so rampant that the Washington Post stopped publishing its internet fact-checking column because people didn’t seem to care if stuff was true.
It's so sad that people only cares about whether ideas are consistent with themselves rather than the authenticity of the information.
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It signals that we’d much rather show our friends that we’re like them than try to understand those who are not.
That's not right
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Sites that exist almost solely to produce content to be shared so friends can pat each other on the back and mock the Other Side.
I don't think any opinions around us can be considered as 100 percent correct or wrong. People can have their own ideas but should also accept ideas that are different or opposite.
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I’m instead referencing those who actually believe in an opposing viewpoint of a complicated issue, and do so for genuine, considered reasons.
Even if these people hold different opinions as ours, it's quite likely that their opinions are also generated from critical thinking and contemplation just as we do.
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[The Internet] encourages people to collapse any distinction between their work life, their social life, and their political life.
With the help of Internet, people can easily acquire other people's perspective for different areas no matter the entertainment or social life, which further leads to the phenomenon that people start to unreasonably consider those who share the same opinion as allies.
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It’s like clockwork: An event happens and then your social media circle is shocked when a non-social media peer group public reacts to news in an unexpected way. They then mock the Other Side for being “out of touch” or “dumb.”
great demonstration of how people reacts when different voices or opinions arise. People tend to consider those who hold different opinions as representative of dumbness which is quite ridiculous from my perspective.
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(“Who the hell are all these people that watch NCIS?”) or in politics (“Everyone I know is for stricter gun control! Who are these backward rubes who disagree?!”) or polls (“Who are these people voting for Ben Carson?”).
Interesting examples, clearly present and demonstrate the idea of false-consensus bias.
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People tend to assume that other people holds the same opinion or perspective as we do.
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