From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 22:09:47 MST
> The first key to changing someone's mind is to be sure they recognize
> that they have one and that they bear responsibility for some of its
> contents and the results deriving from those contents. I'm not holding
> my breath.
>
> - samantha
>
Bollocks. The key to changing someone's mind, up to and including their
personal morality, is to demonstrate to them that a new opinion would be of
significant personal advantage, and wouldn't be too much of a hassle. Often,
this means that morality is surprisingly flexible.
The occasions on which, in the history of the world, people's deeply held
beliefs have been changed by appeals purely to reason, are likely so
infrequent as to be seperately listable in a short email.
Emlyn
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