In cases like this, focusing on yourself first is a good idea. If you’re a rational person and you’re also a very successful person in all of your endeavours, as well as a supernice guy, people will be much more likely to swayed by what you say, moreso than cool arguments or whatever. At least they may tie the idea of rationality and success in life together in their heads.
For what it’s worth though, my advice is not to force any of it. After speaking with me on the topic, a few of my friends now accept evolution and one has become agnostic. I have never raised the topic out of the blue, and I try to make my points very gently, and it has been somewhat effective. Starting arguments and debates and whatnot have been ineffective in the past, for me.
Beware of other optimising was a sequence article that this post reminded me of.
In cases like this, focusing on yourself first is a good idea. If you’re a rational person and you’re also a very successful person in all of your endeavours, as well as a supernice guy, people will be much more likely to swayed by what you say, moreso than cool arguments or whatever. At least they may tie the idea of rationality and success in life together in their heads.
For what it’s worth though, my advice is not to force any of it. After speaking with me on the topic, a few of my friends now accept evolution and one has become agnostic. I have never raised the topic out of the blue, and I try to make my points very gently, and it has been somewhat effective. Starting arguments and debates and whatnot have been ineffective in the past, for me.