The Rationality Project

Why Evidence Gets Ignored

You've made the argument. You brought facts, sources, logic. They dismissed everything and doubled down harder.

It isn't stupidity and it isn't ignorance...it's identity-belief fusion.

When someone's beliefs are fused to their identity, challenges to those beliefs feel like attacks on the self. Defense mechanisms activate. Evidence gets filtered. The conversation becomes a siege instead of an exchange.

You can't out-argue that reflex. You can't logic harder past it. But you can bypass it.

The Rationality Project is a method for engaging claims without triggering identity defense.

No assertions. No debates. No emotional investment.

Just clear questions that test claims in public and let weak reasoning expose itself.

One target. Three dynamics. Nine principles.

We call it the 139 Method.

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