Glad to help. And I definitely see a lot of who I once was in your replies and so I’ve been giving myself time and mulling over things before replying because it does matter.
I think one of the biggest things I can say here is that we are always going to argue from two rhetorical disadvantages: 1) and this is honestly probably the smaller of the two, but people are generally more willing to listen to people similar to themselves unless they’ve been trained to take other groups as authoritative, and 2) we believe in things, which unfortunately is a huge disadvantage as we are bound to our beliefs, whereas they can adapt their position to whatever they think is advantageous at the moment and claim that you just misunderstood or they’re trolling.
They’re trying to tilt you and they’re better at it. But being dismissed tilts them.
Glad to help. And I definitely see a lot of who I once was in your replies and so I’ve been giving myself time and mulling over things before replying because it does matter.
I think one of the biggest things I can say here is that we are always going to argue from two rhetorical disadvantages: 1) and this is honestly probably the smaller of the two, but people are generally more willing to listen to people similar to themselves unless they’ve been trained to take other groups as authoritative, and 2) we believe in things, which unfortunately is a huge disadvantage as we are bound to our beliefs, whereas they can adapt their position to whatever they think is advantageous at the moment and claim that you just misunderstood or they’re trolling.
They’re trying to tilt you and they’re better at it. But being dismissed tilts them.