It’s because we actually care about being correct
I have not found this to be generally true.
Elaborate?
Most people even on the left are just tribal, doing things for group membership and not really understanding or caring about underlying ethics. Most people haven’t read a single book of theory¹, and if they have they didn’t understand it.
They might be doing vaguely the right thing,but they’re probably doing it because that’s where they made friends. It’s not a bad reason, it’s just not really that radical. They don’t care about truth much more than the average howling christofascist orc does; they mostly judge information on group acceptance like everybody else, and just fell into a less awful group.
¹or equivalent
exactly my experience. people actually looking at data and making decisions based on reality is rare. most people adhere to group-think and do what their friends think is acceptable.
And telling them to please be more than that does not go over well.
