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Originally Posted by frinkprof
It's not about converting the ignorant. They are unconvertible.
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People have to be protected against themselves, that's what it boils down to.
Ideally (idealistically?
) people would make informed decisions based on good information about things in their lives.
Pragmatically, this is impossible, because there is not enough time, resources, or brain space for a single person to be able to know all the information in order to make an informed decision for every decision they make. So many decisions must be delegated.
Not only that, it's been demonstrated that making a good decision even with correct information is very hard, because our brains are not evolved for making good decisions, are brains are evolved to make decisions that don't result in us getting eaten by a tiger in the next 15 seconds.
There are decisions that simply cannot be trusted to an individual, or rather decision where an individual cannot be trusted to make well.
If they want to make that decision and it doesn't affect anyone else, then fine, but most decisions don't happen in a vacuum and DO impact others.