My answer for that dilemma has been working with kids. Been working with kids since I was a kid, tutoring 3rd graders in 5th grade, senior patrol leader at 14 to a bunch of 10-12 year olds, teaching 8th graders in Sunday school when I was in 11th grade – and that’s just when I was a kid too – and one thing about working with kids is they cut you down quick.
That doesn’t mean they’re right but their skepticism is strong. Go to an average Youtube video showing an “amazing miracle” and you’ll see HUNDREDS of literal 10 year olds writing, “Fake”. “Fake AF”. Some break it down how they think it’s fake.
But those same kids at 15 years old will be idiots and believe anything.
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That said, they’re also gullible. But the % of skepticism and gullibility is pretty even.
Flash forward to adulthood and we’ve grown so confident in our rational abilities that we don’t believe we have chinks in our armor, feeling as if we’ve left our gullibility and false beliefs back in our own youths.
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