Do you know how so many people fall for the telephone scam "This is the FBI/IRS (you name the law enforcement agency), and we have a warrant for your arrest for outstanding taxes/fines, you can pay it now over the phone and we will drop the charges"? Or even better, the internet romance scams, where no matter how much evidence you show to someone that they were scammed, they absolutely refuse to believe it? It's because people instinctively believe what their ears hear and their eyes see and just cannot get beyond that. And when you try to tell someone that that nice, regular looking, funny, normal, seemingly kind/generous relative, friend, or neighbor is a homosexual pedophile who is a member of NAMBLA, their little brains cannot wrap around the cog dis.
Right? It's as if most folks choose willful denial and/or they are under the influence of something more evil.
Thanks, Ann.
Do you know how so many people fall for the telephone scam "This is the FBI/IRS (you name the law enforcement agency), and we have a warrant for your arrest for outstanding taxes/fines, you can pay it now over the phone and we will drop the charges"? Or even better, the internet romance scams, where no matter how much evidence you show to someone that they were scammed, they absolutely refuse to believe it? It's because people instinctively believe what their ears hear and their eyes see and just cannot get beyond that. And when you try to tell someone that that nice, regular looking, funny, normal, seemingly kind/generous relative, friend, or neighbor is a homosexual pedophile who is a member of NAMBLA, their little brains cannot wrap around the cog dis.