The internet has mostly made it easier to find "evidence", mostly in the form of other opinions, that supports positions we are comfortable with while allowing us to filter out or at least tone down serious challenges, at least until we risk a few minutes in opposing territory or debating.

While we stay within the often rich but still far from complete mappings provided by human language, the above is obvious, but even on the odd occasion we allow ourselves to more directly inspect the territory, our observations are overwhelmingly constrained by expectations and theories.

For me, language remains a double-edged sword, efficient at both revealing "truth" in the form of useful and accurate knowledge, but maybe even more efficient at propagating mistruth. And humans are only significantly unique as a language-empowered collective, not as individual animals.

No matter what arguments I can muster in support of those positions, let alone on narrower issues, I must try to remain conscious that they give me a level of comfort which I don't go out of my way to see challenged.