Depends. Sometimes they're not as sure as they say. You can do some degree of Socratic reasoning; ask them why they think that, etc. It tends not to work well on articles of faith, especially not explicit articles of faith. (Many other things are practically so, even if they are not rooted in religion
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I presume you meant 'they're wrong', in whic case, the answer to your context inquiry is 'neither'. The only objective under consideration is to get someone to change their belief about something.
I guess then the question suggests the issues of "would people rather feel right or believe things that are true," and "is there a desire to believe true things which is a motivation in and of itself, and if so, how strong is this motivation"
The consensus I'm getting thusfar seems to be that people would much rather feel right and there is no independant truth motivation; in fact, it may be the only reason people have for wanting to believe true things is that they expect it will cause them to feel more right than believing false things would. If getting there requires them to risk temporarily feeling wrong, the motivation is to continue to feel right by not considering changing their mind.
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The consensus I'm getting thusfar seems to be that people would much rather feel right and there is no independant truth motivation; in fact, it may be the only reason people have for wanting to believe true things is that they expect it will cause them to feel more right than believing false things would. If getting there requires them to risk temporarily feeling wrong, the motivation is to continue to feel right by not considering changing their mind.
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