Well, yeah. You're right that many people can't abide not having answers. It's too uncertain for them. We all want very much to know what is really going on.

The thing that I find is the biggest problem is people's tendency to continue defending an initial position they're taken mainly because their pride is involved in doing so. I call it the "Vietnam syndrome": "We can't leave now, because if we did then all those lives would have been lost in vain. To 'cut and run' now would be a betrayal, and an admission of failure."

This is the primary thing that stands in the way of most people giving any real consideration to opinions that are different from their own. They have a self-image to maintain.

I am not going after you when I say that, Bill, I'm just talking about human nature in a general sense.