American psychologist Jonathan Haidt in his book “The Righteous Mind”, posited that the overwhelming majority of moral reasoning is done post hoc. And this is why he thinks argumentation and evidence is so often terrible at changing peoples beliefs.
The argument is the outward expression of an unreasoned intuition, akin to how a dog wags its tail when its happy - and just like how you cant make it happy by simply wagging its tail for it, you cant change peoples beliefs by simply refuting their arguments.
The arguments that need to be said have already been said.
Take marijuana for example. The arguments being trotted out all around CNN, MSNBC, Fox and friends etc, are the exact same ones that pro-legalization folks have been making for decades. But why is it they’re landing now when they haven’t for the past 50 years . Did logic evolve? Did the actual facts of the matter change? Fuck no
The simple fact is more people are smoking weed now then ever. Its easy to disregard all reason when the people getting the short end of the stick are people you didn’t like anyways. But what if its now your friends? Your kids? You?
Now that the general population has a stake in the matter, everything’s turned on its head now. “Wrong” becomes right, “abhorrent” becomes acceptable, and “deviant” becomes normal. The arguments are the same of they’ve always been, the facts are the same as they’ve always been, but people have motivation to think differently now, and so they are.
Power shapes culture, and power shapes perception. Maps aren’t viewed as actually dangerous or insidious. They’re viewed as powerless pariahs who can be stigmatized, ostracized, and slandered without consequence . In their hatred for us, they find unity and fellowship amongst themselves - Putting their differences aside to collectively finger wag at a people lower than all of them.
There are an order of magnitude more MAPS than society will recognize. some of those MAPS are here, putting up a front for the public eye, because they know what would happen if they were honest to those around them. But the majority of them aren’t being honest even to themselves. They’ll call other people pedophiles, label them degenerates - when they in truth feel the exact same way. They’ll say its different… Why is that? because they’re the ones doing it of course. Their reasoning is motivated, just like how society at large’s reasoning is motivated.
Society’s views on us will not change until the fallout of their belief’s comes knocking at their own front door : until its their sons, their daughters, their parents, their partners, themselves, who are the ones on the receiving end. But that will never happen until those people are honest about who and what they are.
Will that ever happen? I don’t know.
Arguments won’t work with the vast majority of them because the problem is not logical, the problem is a moral value that needs to be extinct.
But I guess that finding who is your real enemy is a good start. Also, I know this is perfectly possible since the lgbt group accomplished that not soo long ago.