alt Hacker News> dig in your heels when confronted with overwhelming dissent
Of course, the majority is always right and we should yield to it right away /s
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bena • yesterday at 11:40 AM
You don’t have to accept their conclusions, but they don’t have to accept yours either. You can walk away
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veltas • yesterday at 11:39 AM
Can I be your friend please.
Also this document is basically just how I act, or how I would still act if I was less self-aware; some combination of the two.
I suspect the author may have written this partly as a self-critique.
One heuristic for spotting when you might be wrong is that you hold a very uncommon belief.
It COULD be that you are correct and the world is crazy, but its far more likely that you are the one who is missing something. It's always worth stopping to double check when this happens.
Perhaps more importantly, if you do happen to be right when everyone else is wrong its important to determine your goals.
Is it more important to be right, or to be happy? If the answer is the latter then its sometimes best to just let people continue being wrong for the sake of being social. Nobody likes to be told they're wrong, so is "correctness" worth more than that person's feelings? Very oten it is not.