Ah, I have met those kind of people. Usually I get the same feeling as when someone is debating politics, leading me to assume that the rejection of rationality is signaling belonging to a certain tribe, one where it is important that everyone feel good about themselves or such.
Personally, I was raised to think and think critically so I can't draw from personal experience. What did convince the ancient Greeks to embrace rationality, to start question the world around them? Maybe we should look there.
Yeah its useless to try to rationally argue for rationality with someone that doesn't authentically accept the legitimacy of rationality in the first place. I guess all of us are like this to some degree, but some more than others for certain.
Not a bad suggestion. I know a little about the Ancient Greek philosophers, though nothing specific springs to mind.
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