It’s not (just) that they can’t be bothered to learn. It’s that they’re sad, frightened little children who, for the most part, have been indoctrinated into learned helplessness and can’t walk back on that because they’re too scared to forsake their community, admit they were wrong this whole time, and, most importantly, confront the implications of the void where their deity used to be.
TL;DR: They’re cowards who’d, whether they consciously think so or not, actively prefer to remain ignorant.
I will say that I find Buddhist beliefs are cool, though. It’s unsubstantiated bullshit, but it’s basically “I should be a mindful, caring person” with some irrelevant woo tacked on at the end, so A+ for results.
It’s not (just) that they can’t be bothered to learn. It’s that they’re sad, frightened little children who, for the most part, have been indoctrinated into learned helplessness and can’t walk back on that because they’re too scared to forsake their community, admit they were wrong this whole time, and, most importantly, confront the implications of the void where their deity used to be.
TL;DR: They’re cowards who’d, whether they consciously think so or not, actively prefer to remain ignorant.
I will say that I find Buddhist beliefs are cool, though. It’s unsubstantiated bullshit, but it’s basically “I should be a mindful, caring person” with some irrelevant woo tacked on at the end, so A+ for results.