The end goal of debates is not to change your opponent’s mind, but to present your ideas and reasoning to the people watching in a convincing way.
I stop when it is clear the other person is arguing in bad faith.
The block button is your strongest weapon against trolls.
Depends if I won or not.
Ego is the enemy
Eh, I try not to have an ego.
Winning in my case tends to involve shutting down reactive idiots who are spouting bullshit by replying to them with enough sources and facts to the point where they start deleting their own replies and blocking me to get away because they now look like fucking morons.
It can be very satisfying but sometimes they’re also a mod or try to dox me, and that is not so fun.
Dissolving the ego takes years of meditation. Good luck.
well, it’s not like i have something better to do, lacking an ocean and a nice rock to sit on in the sun.
Close your eyes and pretend?
Atleast you’ll feel good that way if you put in enough detail.
Or, maybe arguing makes you feel good? In that case. Well… I guess we’re all fucked.
If only I could know that the ones I am arguing are actual humans not just bots. In the former my arguing could be fruitful and turn them to not vote any longer for the right extremist party in my country.
Assume everybody is a bot, and achieve zen today.
I wonder if this is the human hive mind just reacting to itself?
I think we’re in this proto-unified consciousness where we’re adapting before eventually we get bored of arguing and all land on the same page.
Humans are gonna human. Think about it, every country started out as little groups of people, then villages, towns, cities, counties, states, countries, treaties and then continents. Within that, every single stage had a period where they’d fight amongst themselves.
I guess where just in the place now, but on a globally conscious level.
We’re about to achieve world peace, I think after the next war, once we realise we’re all the same, and technology continues to mitigate language barriers, it’s done.