We, being only flesh, form our opinions mostly by our "indoctrination" and "experience" and those "opinions" may, or may not, actually be "factual"!
We fail to grasp the concept that facts don't require us to believe in them...they exist outside of "opinion and belief"!
The big problem is that most people don't want "facts"! They want what THEY PERCEIVE as
facts to be reinforced by "external sources"! Hence why most, even when provided with UNQUESTIONABLE FACTS, will
reject those facts - because that information doesn't "reinforce" their own "perception of the facts"!
Truth is truth..it has no pre-requisite for ANYONE to believe it. It's TRUTH! The problem
comes when "humans" relay that information to one another, where it get's "molded" into a "narrative"
that supports our personal "perception", rather than what is factually accurate.
To quote: Truth, after all, is so poorly lit
As an example:
Two people see an accident between a red car and blue car. One person is on one side of the accident, and is POSITIVE that
the blue car is at fault. The other person, having seen it from a "different perspective", is POSITIVE that they red car is at fault.
BOTH believe that their "perspective" is FACTUAL! However, NEITHER have considered ALL of the variables, but have
passed judgement based solely on their "visual perspective and perception" but not on "Facts"!
Hopefully that makes it understandable why it is SO IMPERATIVE that things be INVESTIGATED, and ALL possible known
information be considered, BEFORE we draw any "conclusions" and decide what is "Factual"! Otherwise it's just a "self-reinforced delusion"!
And THIS is WHY we have what we have TODAY! Politics and the Media have become about "molding narratives to
shape the perception of reality, and controlling the masses", rather than about what is FACTUALLY ACCURATE!