Fighting to die the cost of living is too high

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ~Max Planck, A Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1949

When enough significant anomalies have accrued against a current paradigm, (world view) the scientific discipline is thrown into a state of crisis, according to Kuhn. During this crisis, new ideas, perhaps ones previously discarded, are tried. Eventually a new paradigm is formed, which gains its own new followers, and an intellectual "battle" takes place between the followers of the new paradigm and the hold-outs of the old paradigm. Wikepedia

One of the weird things about humans is their dogged determination to hold onto ideas, beliefs and points of view even when the cost of so doing is broken relationships, stress and sometimes even death. It seems other people are impelled, propelled and compelled - the less fortunate. But us fortunate ones - we have free will.

Arthur Schopenhauer put the puzzle of free will and moral responsibility in these
terms:

Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free, even in his individual actions, and thinks that at every moment he can commence another manner of life... . But a posteriori, through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but subjected to necessity, that in spite of all his resolutions and reflections he does not change his conduct, and that from the beginning of his life to the end of it, he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns...."

In his On the Freedom of the Will, Schopenhauer stated, "You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one
thing." Wikepedia

Fighting to die the cost of living is too high

All of us - well most of us - have destructive tendency or habits. Some folk are addicted to smoking. Others are addicted to worry, guilt, self pity and other thought/feeling patterns. Some addictions make us outcasts others make us caring people. Worriers think they are ever so caring. Ask the people they worry about whether they feel cared for or not. The point is most of us will rationalise and justify our destructive tendencies when asked about them and we will when cornered fight for them

We will fight for them even though they may be destroying us. It seems that either the cost of change is too high or we don't have the level of free will we like to claim we have.