If everybody agrees with you then that's a pretty good sign that you are wrong.

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Based on the downvotes, you must think this was a good take lmao

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Not even once.

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Do you always frame your assertions as questions?

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So right. And look everybody agrees with you.

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Assuming the English alphabet, A is the first letter.

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People will say mean things to you at the very least.

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Such careful thinking, such scientificness, is rare as hen's teeth. And authoritarianism is so common.

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It's expected. It's the 2 or 3 thoughtful responses that I'm looking for.

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That's a special case.

Most of popular thought is not that.

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Then replace "wrong" with "arrived at in a nonreasonable way".

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Only if I ask for an answer.

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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.

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There are exceptions of course. And maybe that's one of them. Or maybe it isn't. The point would be to reexamine your conclusions. Because it's so easy to get caught up in the groupthink.

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You mean Cuneiform.

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For unpopular opinion maybe

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Not in the anglosphere

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I think you're confusing a few things here, but that's ok. After all, it's a shower thought, not a thesis.

Whether people agree or disagree with you is not a good indication of you being right or wrong. it could be either way in both cases.

When people think the same way as you do, they tend to agree with you. They might think that way, because you're really convincing or because they see the world the same way you do. In either case, you could still be right or wrong.

It's also possible that people appear to agree with you even though they don't actually think like you do. See dictatorships for more info on that situation. As usual, this has nothing to with who is right and who is wrong.

Regardless, you touched upon an important point. Humans are social animals, and tribalism causes all sorts of weird behavior, such as rejecting your own conclusions and going with the flow. In a hunter gatherer society, your life literally depends on the group, so you better stick together. In a modern society, we still need each other, but more indirectly.

If everyone agrees with you, take that a warning sign that they might be acting on tribal instincts. Act responsibly, because your decisions might affect the people around you.

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It's the only way to be sure you are correct or not.

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And at worst, they will kill you for perhaps being gay, trans, having a different religion, or otherwise not conforming to 'normal' society

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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.