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Dope1,
It's O.K. to make a mistake or be ignorant about a subject. No one is perfect.
However, the ability to engage in error-correction, i.e. to actually learn something you didn't know, is critical.
The Leftists almost universally are incapable of incorporating new or different information or opinions or data into their self-referential world view.
The Leftist I had been responding to assumed that when I asked him to cite the [non-existent] Supreme Court holding which he claimed existed, I was somehow trying to do a "gotcha."
Not at all. I was trying to learn something from someone who claimed to be more knowledgeable than I am about it.
I simply asked him to cite the holding, verbatim, under the assumption that he was telling the truth as he saw it, but perhaps when looking at the entire holding, there were some nuances as to its meaning that were at least, debatable.
But as it turned out there was no holding at all.
Instead of responding by saying, "O.K. you have a point there, it's an inference in a concurrence by Kavanaugh [concurrence which he didn't supply either], on the shadow docket--in reality, that's not a holding of the Supreme Court, it's just one justice's possible opinion and is not a binding ruling"--said Leftist goes on the attack.
The inability to admit error is because it would force them to challenge the entire Leftist psyops delusion they are living within.
The whole edifice comes crumbling down once you start challenging your own psychological and emotional biases.
They are NEVER going to concede that Rob Reiner was a shitty father.
They are NEVER going to concede that maybe the psychotic murdering son may have been prompted to violence by his own father's relentless tirades against the father's perceived political adversaries. Who knows what kind of crazy violent imagery and talk this kid had been brainwashed into believing since birth by his equally psychotic father.
The are NEVER going to concede that perhaps Reiner and his wife would still be alive, and his son not a murderer, if Reiner had spent a lot more effort on helping his own family and a lot less effort on telling the rest of the world how smart and infallible Reiner is and how stupid and undeserving of life, safety and basic respect his perceived political adversaries were (at least to Reiner).
They are NEVER going to concede that Reiner, the "father," repeatedly modeled uncompromising hatred of those he disagreed with in the public sphere, which to a mentally ill person might justify "any means necessary."
