&gt; I think most people on this planet are able to consider each point at its face value.<p>Humans have a pretty strong demonstrated tendency to develop positive or negative emotional attachments to pretty much everything, including sources of information&#x2F;arguments, and see the world strongly filtered through those. This is, while it can be misleading, an important evolved survival mechanism in terms of attention&#x2F;resource management.<p>Most people probably can, by expending effort, mitigate that to a certain extent, but that doesn&#x27;t negate it completely.