Dear Foxy,

You wrote: "For example, if you want to convince a vaccine
skeptic or a climate-change denier that immunizations
are safe or that climate change is real -
the key question is not - why do they disagree with
the science? But rather why do they want to disagree
with the science?"

There is no key question that will convince them. Both Labor and Libs favor giving tax breaks to Adani even though almost all scientists make the connection between climate change and burning fossil fuels. The lemmings continue to exist because some don't jump off the cliff. However, climate change affects deniers and accepters of science. God botherers think He will fix things. Their belief is inimical to reason, science and human life.

....a pro-climate change advocate.
Foxy,
And, what has this advocate achieved thus far apart from ousting pollie ?

no one on olo who supports the baby killing industry seems to have changed their mind. There are however many who rely on science and reality rather than allowing a sick flawed narrative to keep their head in the sand.

Individual,

If you're really interested you can Google her
Climate Change Bill 2020 as well as her push for
a conscience vote for MPs.

However we should not forget her getting rid of
the wrecking - ball that was Tony Abbott. Warringah
is better off as is the Liberal Party.

runner,

I don't think that anyone on this forum supports
a "baby-killing industry".

If you think they do please provide the evidence.

Foxy,

Yes, belief, truth and reality are usually complicated. Issues, especially those which are controversial, are by definition tortuously complex, many-sided, even contradictory, often unresolved, and even unresolveable.

And that's not even getting into Popper's reservations about the problems with equating reality and knowledge.

Runner's obsession, for example: abortion, raises the issue of the rights of women to the choices of what to do with their own bodies, and the different rights of men to, on some basis, dictate what women can do with their own bodies.

Yes, there is a time to rejoice and a time to weep, and, as you remind us from Ecclesiastes 3:1, 'There's a time for the middle finger. And a time to put it away.'

Thank you :)

Joe