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If you say you drink vodka, I have no reason to believe you don’t. If you say you drink vodka but insist that you don’t consume alcohol, then I can reasonably conclude that you do, in fact, consume alcohol. And it is the same principle at play here. I don’t need to invent your motivation because you have already volunteered it yourself when you said, “I hold contempt for poor people because they are cruel.” “I hold contempt for poor people…” This is you stating your own feelings. I can take that as fact because na you know your mind. “…because they are cruel.” This is where your personal conviction is no longer enough. You are making a claim about an entire group of people, and that claim requires evidence. And since you have presented that claim without evidence, anyone is perfectly justified in rejecting it without providing evidence of their own. The burden of proof rests with the person making the claim. So, when we separate what you have told us about yourself from what you have claimed about other people, the only thing we can reasonably accept as fact is that you hold contempt for poor people. Everything else is an unsubstantiated justification for that contempt.