What is the term for the fallacy/strategy of ignoring logical reasoning intended to disprove a belief?

Question

Mr. Pink practices a lifestyle of New Age religion/belief. He buys books about new age healing, reincarnation, magic powers, holy god men, etc. Although Mr. Pink doesn't outwardly proclaim his beliefs, he passively makes them known to anyone in his life and frequently drops false 'wisdom' (unsubstantiated claims embedded in cliches) peppered into his conversations. Mr. Black denies all claims that cannot be proved by evidence. Mr. Black then confronts Mr. Pink one day at lunch, claiming that all new age magic power b.s. is in-fact, nonsense. Mr. Black claims to know "real" reality and not Mr. Pink's "belief system dependent" reality and attempts to share knowledge with Mr. Pink. Upon attempting to share this knowledge, Mr. Pink eyes glaze over and he clearly is not listening (evident by his body language and facial expression)... After Mr. Black explains the foundations of knowledge (empirical knowledge) Mr. Pink responds with a rather arrogant tone, and says "Why does it matter? Why are you so [obsessed, fixated, fascinated] with these people's beliefs?" Mr. Black is perplexed, as he thought all human beings have an innate desire to know the truth. Even when Mr. Black presented documents, books, videos and other media to help Mr. Pink understand what knowledge is and how it can be tested, Mr. Pink flippantly ignores the information and goes back to his lifestyle of New Age belief-dependent-reality lifestyle. What is this approach? How does one even deal with someone such as Mr. Pink?

Answer 1

Mr. Pink has contempt for much of humanity. You said "denies all claims that cannot be proved by evidence." but he is in the position of a blind man arguing with those who can see. Mr Pink is not treating Mr Black with the respect that an honest interlocutor should receive.

I would like to know Mr. Pink's moral life. Does he help the suffering? Does he bear other people's burdens?

The answer is , we have a MIND (which almost all questions such as yours emphasize) but we also have a Will -- the best you can do is give the Truth and leave it at that. You cannot force the Will