beef_bourito wrote:
^^^ i agree, i don't like arguing with people who can't understand simple logic, i don't even bother anymore. the one thing i avoid completely is arguing religion (i'm not saying religious people are stupid, let me explain). i used to be catholic, and when i was i knew that a lot of science disagreed with my religion, and i could see why someone wouldn't be religious, but i still believed. i don't debate religion anymore because whenever i do it's with someone who's so hardheaded that they can't wrap their minds around the fact that someone might not believe the same thing they do and it usually ends with them describing their personal experiences and saying "how do you explain THAT" and acting all smug about it.
i love intelligent debate, especially if i learn something and change my opinion. if i walk away from a debate with a new point of view, i feel satisfied. the whole point of debate for me is for both people to walk away with the same, or similar, point of view. you're trying to convince the other person that your opinion is correct. most of the time debates won't change someones opinion on something (and often that's just because people are too proud to admit that the other person might have a point), but for me if i walk away with even a slightly different perception, it actually makes me happy. i guess it's weird for me to say that i actually like losing an intelligent debate, considering how competitive i am.
Agreed, arguing religion seems pointless as everyone believes different things. Live and let live, I say.
Yeah, a lot of the time in a debate, it may seem the two people are complete polar opposites, but after a while it can come out that they both agree after all and merely have different ideas from the same perspective.
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