Why are most people incapable of backing their positions with facts?

Question

On many boards posters will give you OPINIONS but can not back them with any facts. When you point this out, all they can do is "name call" or spew sound bits. Are people getting brain dead?

Answer 1

Some of us have facts, but doing all of someone else's research gets old.

Answer 2

Perhaps. Do you have sources to support your opinions, or is it just too much trouble to post them?

Answer 3

I forget who said it... maybe it was Steve Correll, who said, "Facts only get in the way of the truth."

Answer 4

Quite frankly I'm not sure it makes that much of a difference. Even a well reasoned argument is likely to be ignored or ridiculed because people in this section are SO partisan to their own candidate.

Answer 5

I don't think most people (on Y/A anyway) bother because when it comes to politics, any "fact" can be spun by the either side. Any source that they cite would simply be dismissed as biased.

Answer 6

They are probably not even registered to vote but know everything about everything. They can't even cut and paste a fact because they don't know how.

Answer 7

most people react with fear and emotion on a forum like this.consider the sources when you read their rants.both conservatives and liberals get a little crazy on this forum. way to much drama.

Answer 8

I completely, absolutely agree. Argumentation and debate isn't about arguing and professing obscenities. It's about presenting points and analysis that are supported by factual basis or quoted from professionals specializing in any pertinent field of study. Instead, "partisan bickering", as it is called between politicians, has also taken over debating and discussing.

I understand that facts may be hard to collect for such small forums, but, not to sound condescending, but start reading up on more material and memorizing better.

Answer 9

They're lazy.

Answer 10

How?

Decode this lyrics " Which way the wind blow"

With street talks?

What to back with?

Cheap-skate ghostly stories?

Luke 8.5-8,10-17

What do you think?

Answer 11

Because COneseravives blindly take position of Bible and Liberals blindly take positions that is opposite of Bible.

Answer 12

Most people go by sound bits and emotions . They do not want to hear the fact and issues till they smack them in the face .

Answer 13

It has been my experience over the years, to observe that very few people are willing to allow facts to interfere with their opinion. This is especially true with politics.