In today's world, defending the truth has become an increasingly exhausting and often futile endeavour. The problem is that truth is no longer universally accepted as a shared reality. In many quarters, it has become a tribal marker, a symbol of identity rather than a principle of inquiry. When a person's worldview is threatened, they may resist facts not because the facts are unclear, but because the facts unsettle their sense of self, community or power. In such a climate, defending truth is less about evidence and more about navigating psychological, social and moral resistance.

This dynamics echoes the classical problem known as motivated reasoning: people accept information that confirms their beliefs and reject what challenges them. It is a human trait but in the digital age of endless information and echo chambers, it becomes amplified. The consequence is an infinite deflection loop, where no amount of evidence suffices because each piece of proof is met with a new demand or dismissal. Philosophers like Harry Frankfurt have described this........

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