What if it's not just an opinion, but an entire worldview, with hundreds of nested opinions and rationalizations bundled together into a giant ball of hypocrisy and stupidity?
That is what makes it more intractable. You cannot persuade someone of something that goes against his entire worldview. And you can't change his worldview until you have persuaded him that most individual elements are wrong. Chicken and egg problem.
What if it's not just an opinion, but an entire worldview, with hundreds of nested opinions and rationalizations bundled together into a giant ball of hypocrisy and stupidity?
That is what makes it more intractable. You cannot persuade someone of something that goes against his entire worldview. And you can't change his worldview until you have persuaded him that most individual elements are wrong. Chicken and egg problem.