We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)
I don’t think it is as simple as this quote seems to suggest. True, sometimes we turn away from the truth we see because of sloth, but some people work very hard to promote something they believe in passionately, but which is in fact false. It is hard to imagine that they see the truth but are expending so much effort to undermine it. It seems to me that they are blinded by ideology, which makes useful discussion very difficult.
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