Denying Problems When We Don’t Like the Solutions (perhaps somewhat off-topic)

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33. Very true!

The differences between worldviews come not so much from the facts in evidence as from the assumptions we apply to those facts to produce conclusions.

OK and I can look at the very same set of facts and come to completely different conclusions, because our assumptions going in are different.

Assumptions (especially in a social context) are quite hard to identify, are a LOT harder to validate than facts, and tend to be bound up with our emotions and core values. That deep psychological rootedness makes assumptions very resistant to change, and also makes us quite willing to do battle to defend them. As OK and I have demonstrated.