"People believe what they want to believe"

[CKguy426]

Believing in what you want to believe is simply called being ignorant. It really upsets me when people claim this and accuse everyone of it. So then are they also admitting themselves of being ignorant, or just everyone else? and if so we shouldn't listen to that person. I here that quote all the time, and on a new Colbert Report that was just on, an author who seemed certain this theory was true, was just on promoting his book about it. I for one think that not everyone believes in what they want to believe, and or just filter out information to fit there preconceived beliefs. Those people who do are called idiots and fools, (like George Bush) and need to be excluded from important decision making and productive debates. I would hope someone would point out when ever I am doing it, because i will certainly point it out to them. I also think that ideology is very dangerous if powerful people think it to be fact, because it assumes people cant make the right choices for themselves. Peoples minds are always expanding and evolving. When it it pointed out that one person is acting ignorantly that person will take mind, learn, and then reject that ignorance for a more mature, rational and intellectual act, thought, belief ect. atleast the normal person would.