{"id":1028,"date":"2013-06-08T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2013-06-08T11:12:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T16:12:03","slug":"open-question-confrontations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/2013\/06\/08\/open-question-confrontations\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Question &#8211; Confrontations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an open question, I&#8217;d like to her thoughts, suggestions, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a point when you shouldn&#8217;t bother correcting someone&#8217;s idiocy?<\/p>\n<p>For example, a friend makes a post. \u00a0One of their friends comments. \u00a0Should you correct the commenter if they are being stupid?<\/p>\n<p>Is there a point where you just have to say &#8220;This person will never get it. \u00a0They don&#8217;t want to get it and are perfectly happy being ignorant. \u00a0It&#8217;s not worth the fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Should you correct them anyway in the hopes that you might reach one person who is willing to listen?<\/p>\n<p>Does it make a difference if the original post is science? politics? religion? celebrity gossip?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve ruffled an awful lot of feathers in the last year or so&#8230; mainly among family members&#8230; and it&#8217;s not going to get better. \u00a0Some people are just incapable of thinking beyond their beliefs and nothing will change them.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an open question, I&#8217;d like to her thoughts, suggestions, etc. Is there a point when you shouldn&#8217;t bother&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}