“You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason their way into.”

Certainly applies to those folks who accepted blindly what they were taught as children and then spent their adulthood defending it.

Contrasted with people who re-examined their beliefs with the matured mind of an adult, frequently finding that the ideas of children are immature, unworkable and designed to support the then power structure.

This place could be a laboratory for that, as many of us haven’t changed a belief since they were 7.