Comment by Felony_Fred

> Once someone has formed an identity around some core assumptions of the world, anything that challenges it will be seen as an attack on one’s ego.

That's hard to escape, and it might well be a quite useful mechanism in many cases, but multiply that by filter bubbles and echo chambers, and it can become difficult for otherwise reasonable people to have conversations about many topics. It happens here too but I would say less than in other parts of the worlds. Here = HN. Worlds = Parallel realities that get created that way ^

Related ;

Beware online "filter bubbles" ( 2011 )

https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...