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

[free_opinions@feddit.uk]

A contrarian isn’t one who always objects — that’s a confirmist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently, from the ground up, and resists pressure to conform.

• Naval Ravikant

[inenduringgrowstrong@sh.itjust.works]

The opposite doesn't mean you're right either.

[jet@hackertalks.com]

Critical thinking skills are required, to really know if you're right or wrong. Just going by what is common and doing the opposite, or doing what is common, is not enough.

The entire scientific method is designed so that people can verify if they are wrong or right, through falsifiable hypotheses, simply debating and using rhetoric to try to decide truth often leads to incorrect conclusions, if not outright falsehoods. However, the burden of proof is on the person with the new theory, not everybody else to prove the new theory is wrong

[sabre363@sh.itjust.works]

Not contradicting anything you said or trying to make an argument, just thought it would be a cool thing to share and let people learn about.

But if you do want some kind of argument, then I would say that while you are not wrong here, conformity has basically nothing to do with drawing reasonable conclusions and that really isn't it's purpose. Conformity is almost more of a defense mechanism (which can go wrong rather easily, hence this discussion) meant to keep us comfortable and prevent accidentally painting a social target on our own backs. It's when conformity is conflated with logical reasoning that we start to get problems.

[crogdor@lemmy.world]

That’s just Big Cute propaganda. The puppy-kitten industrial complex has brainwashed us all. Have you even considered that tarantulas and anglerfish might be the true standard of cuteness?

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

The social target, you get used to it.

[lugal@sopuli.xyz]

Few people know that runes were first

[lugal@sopuli.xyz]

You make it sound quite linear. There are more than 2 ends so there isn't "that other end". Your social group might not see birds as dinosaurs but that doesn't make them governmental drones either

[socsa@piefed.social]

People who don't understand science don't get this. When science changes it doesn't mean the previous ideas were "wrong" - it usually just means that the framework and the data it is built around was incomplete or imprecise. That's the entire premise of empiricism, and why there are differences between how theory, fact and axiom are handled.

Far too many people believe that the history of overturned consensus suggests that modern consensus is also "wrong" when it was the empiricist framework which discovered both "truths" in the first place.

[sabre363@sh.itjust.works]

Perhaps, but for a lot of people it can be incredibly dangerous or even lethal to be that social target

[belastend@slrpnk.net]

Contrarianism in a nutshell.

You're not smart, you're just a hipster.

[themurphy@lemmy.ml]

Must be hard to come around math, science and in general facts for you. We all agree on how it works, so it must be wrong?

[dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org]

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

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

Not even once.

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

Do you always frame your assertions as questions?

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

So right. And look everybody agrees with you.

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

Assuming the English alphabet, A is the first letter.

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

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

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

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

[infinite_ass@leminal.space]

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