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> Trying to guide them towards the path of truth is, simply put, derailing them. That's not the path they seek.

If they actively want to lie to themselves you are not gonna easily stop them. But sometimes you still gotta put up the signposts for them to discover. Because guess who is more likely to walk down the wrong path:

A) someone who is never presented with facts that don't fit into their world image

B) someone who sees these facts constantly and from all different kinds of directions

Influencing someone's world view is a incredibly slow process. So even observing the difference one made is hard. And sometimes you don't do it for them, but yourself, because you have to live with not having done enough if they end up drifting into a cult.



> But sometimes you still gotta put up the signposts for them to discover.

Everything is true when you prefix it with "sometimes" :-)

My point is that "sometimes" applies a minority of the times - and by minority I mean perhaps less than 10%.

In most of the cases someone is "wrong", neither A nor B above applies. Their world view in those cases are irrelevant to anything - even to them.




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