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  1. MewMew

    MewMew

    I know a lot of anti-maskers, (especially in my family). 

     

    I think they're just pushing their passionate attitudes in the wrong direction.

    They don't mean harm but they're easily led and fed. I'm not calling them stupid but i am calling for a checking of ego.

    I've also noticed a mass majority of the ones i do know only want to confirm their own bias and disregard any opposing opinion that hurts their shaky belief system.

    A few in my family think the government is trying to control them by making them wear one, which i find to be conspiratorial, considering who is feeding them this information... 

    They would die on a hill in the wrong knowing it to the bitter end. I have a few narcissists in my family so maybe it's anecdotal.

    I don't understand where they're coming from, at all, but i do know i have to be patient and caring with them.

  2. Techstorm970

    Techstorm970

    @MewMew My immediate family has a similar issue.  Not to such an extreme, (no conspiracy theorists to my knowledge!) but both my mom and dad have egos fragile enough that when an event directly challenges their life philosophy, they don't handle it well.  Unfortunately, a traumatic event of that nature happened to me in high school and their struggle to be at all helpful or supportive afterwards kinda forced me to grow up early.

     

    Now I'm stuck in a situation where I'm more mature than most of my peers and need to check myself to make sure I don't judge them too harshly.  (Basically I tend to see most of the early Gen Z-ers, my generation, as naive and/or overly sensitive.  And I hate when people "cope" by whining their asses off.)

     

    My dad is very logical and intelligent, but inherited the stereotypical, broken 1950s-era philosophy on dealing with emotions from his father.  (My mom's perceptiveness and emotional intelligence keeps him sane lol!)  My mom grew up in a bubble (not really by choice, to be fair) and ends up being kinda gullible to conspiracy theories as a result.  My dad and I keep her grounded so she hasn't bought into most of them, thankfully.  She also gets uncomfortable with associating with non-Christians and tries to push that on my sister and I.  That annoys me to no end because, while most of the Christians I've met have been awesome, the worst person I (and she) have ever known was also a Christian.  I just shake my head and go, "How do you not see that it's not that simple?  Some of your own experiences disprove your philosophy!"

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    I've also noticed a mass majority of the ones i do know only want to confirm their own bias and disregard any opposing opinion that hurts their shaky belief system

    My experience with people with (legitimately) far-left or ultra-liberal political views has always been like this.  They're not the only ones, just the examples I run into most frequently.  If, in your mind, historical lessons and practical needs consistently take a back seat to ideology or especially to a politician's "enDEAriNG peRSoNaLiTy," then I probably disagree with most of your views.  Seriously, one can simultaneously be both a really nice person and a complete fucking idiot.  Otherwise, I've just seen too many examples of ideas that sound nice in theory going horribly wrong in practice due to [insert overlooked, unfixable problem here].  (To tie into history, that's literally the Soviet Union in a nutshell; a concept that sounded nice but quickly went to hell in a handbasket for human nature reasons.)

  3. MewMew

    MewMew

    I don't know why Christians and anti-mask seem to be a matching pair.

    Exact same situation.

    Ironically my mother is mentally retarded, (to an extent) and believes in wearing a mask, while the woman who raised me is frivolously against wearing one: christian and conspiratorial.

    These people aren't stupid. I'm convinced they have high narcissistic tendencies and lack an* emotional intelligence. 

  4. soldier_ph

    soldier_ph

    Absolutely brilliant and spot on 👌

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