Stubbornness is not conviction

Just as the title says, stubbornness is not conviction, yet it is often mistaken as such. In a world (or at least a nation) that has been transparently overtaken by corruption, people crave conviction for celebrities and politicians that seem to be guided by something other than greed. I find myself in this emerging faction. I am hungry for authenticity. Truly random photo dumps. People giving unpopular and not "unpopular" hot takes. If someone is authentic, we should be able to find their guiding principles; their convictions. This is where many people go wrong. A thriving democracy requires everyone who participates to be able to accept the best argument, even if that results in their own argument being defeated. One of the best convictions someone can have is one for the truth. If majority of the evidence shows that a thing is bad, they must accept that the majority of the evidence shows that it is bad-not necessarily that it is bad. A recent political example I can point to is an…