I am sure we all have had a discussion with a conspiracy theorist, a believer of one dogma or another. Most of us have been presented with the condescending "But how do you explain X?" construction.
As if there was no other way to explain X, but by invoking the most fantastical concepts.
When you are presented with a stink-trap like this, do not go level-headed science-do on them. Instead, turn the question around and make them say it in the passive: "I do not understand how X." Put this way, you move from the detailed how to the core why and spare yourself giving a lecture that would fall on deaf ears.
Here is an example. You are presented with "But how do you explain the fact that bodies lose 4 grams of weight upon death?" by a spiritualist or a run-of-the-mill Christian. Spare them the laugh-in-your-face retort of: "And how do you explain that I lose 100 grams when I take a shit?" and instead pretend you didn't hear and ask them to repeat the question, but in different form: "Pardon, what don't you understand?" With some luck they will go: "I don't understand how bodies can lose weight upon death." Where you go: "Really?!" and end the conversation, letting them figure it out for themselves and not wasting your time.
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