Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-34724302-20181012185549/@comment-25936766-20181013230829

Yeah, the use of "there's many people-" fails to work here because you're arguing it's common. We're talking frequency, not quantity. "There's many people who X", obviously there's many people who do X or act like X, because there's 7+ billion people on the planet.

Some people are in denial for unbelievably-long amounts of time. Some people would rather commit suicide than admit they messed up. But both of these, are not common, especially if we limit ourselves to just adults.

You cannot just say "it's obviously common". As far as I've seen, in real life and on the internet, neither of those things are so common that one could see them and just go "oh yeah, that happens".

And even with the few I've seen that do stay in-denial for years, they still don't stay like that for almost 2 decades. They don't take that long to clear their mind and reach a conclusion about whatever they were in denial about, whether it's a right or wrong conclusion.