Most of us just want to fit in, and believe what everybody believes.

Coming to your beliefs this way is not actually intelligent. We don’t do it consciously. It’s just tribalism or herding instinct or whatever.

So if everybody agrees with you then that’s a pretty good sign that you are wrong.

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    If I was to say “the sky is blue” and everyone agrees with me, it’s actually because the sky is fucking blue.

    I don’t know how you came to such a wildly bad conclusion. There are other caveats needed to make what you said even remotely accurate. Like if you’re a billionaire and everyone always agrees with you, you’re probably wrong most of the time.

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      Because this person got absolutely roasted in their previous post, and even commented this post’s title to another comment there.

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      There are exceptions of course. And maybe that’s one of them. Or maybe it isn’t.