All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. It feels like a personal assault. To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.