Comment by achierius
2 days ago
But isn't that generally true? That's why anyone bothers to question their existing beliefs -- because they prefer "the truth" over "what [they] believe to be true". Not everyone does, of course, but everyone did just value "what [they] believe to be true" then any sort of self-reflection on belief would be a strict net-negative!
The point is that you never get past what you believe to be true. If you discover that what you believe to be true is false, the only thing you can do is start believing something else to be true. It's silly to say that you want to stop doing this, as if there's some way to escape the cycle.