Why Are These Facts So Stubbornly Forbidden?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/13/why-are-these-facts-so-stubbornly-forbidden/
Date Written:  2019-05-13
Publisher:  Counterpunch
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23716

The author gives several examples of people refusing to change their beliefs even when confronted with facts.

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I've had countless experiences of pointing out a new fact to someone, and seeing them acknowledge it and incorporate it into their thinking and their talking from that point forward. I've even had this experience with public petitions pushed on powerful people. But, I've also had a different experience. There are some facts that some people just will not accept, and for some of them I have a very hard time understanding why.

For example, today I received an appeal from the March for Our Lives people upset and outraged that teachers were going to be allowed to bring guns into their school in Florida. They do not want any guns in their school, they said. But - and this they did not say - their school already has ROTC and gun training. Their school already has lots of guns in it. Their classmate who killed many of their other classmates was trained to shoot guns in their school by the U.S. Army. So, do they want guns in their school or not?

What costs money and what does not really seems to be up to personal preference. For example, does the collapse of the climate - all the storms and droughts and floods to come - cost anything? On the one hand, you would think so. Young people are already suing governments for imposing enormous costs on young and future generations. There have been studies done of the cost of converting the world to sustainable green energy, and the cost is in the negative tens of trillions of dollars. In other words, it would save money, yet it is understood to be outrageously too expensive to even dream about.