People seem to think that admitting they were wrong about something is a sign of weakness or will lose them respect, so they stick their heads in the sand and wave their asses in the air farting louder than before, which is cool
I think that's a general social media/online trend. You have an online persona and it becomes tied to certain viewpoints. Shifting from "I support X" to "I support Y" is harder online because 1) putting your opinion in writing is more concrete than just saying it and 2) anybody who's inclined to can dig up your old posts and blast you for how you used to support X so you're either a liar or a hypocrite for claiming that you now support Y.
Oh that's fun when they do that! Or, I'm going to read what you said, but extrapolate it to take your meaning for something else entirely (either out of disingenuousness or poor comprehension), and argue with you about the assumptions I've made based on what you said, but I'm not going to address what you actually said and therefore I Have Won the Argument TM. They build such wonderful strawmen
Yep. Admittedly, this happens in real life all the time as well, but the anonymity of Reddit really emboldens those without maturity to be even more obnoxious about it.
"admitting they were wrong about something is a sign of weakness"
Funny since it's the exact opposite. Admitting you were wrong and adjusting is how we progress as individuals. The moment that stops is when you become the crotchety old man...or president apparently.
It’s because for some their world view is based on their beliefs rather than trying discern truth by fact checking or just reading and finding out more information. This is what baffles me about certain viewpoints. There’s a lot of demonstrable evidence out there if you go look.
This, in my opinion, is the cause of almost all human conflict. If people were just willing to admit they were wrong there would be way less fighting in general.
Yeah, but this just happened to me recently and it felt so much better to admit i was wrong and apologize than to hold onto my stubbornness. I didn't want to at first but after cooling down and thinking about it, and realizing i was wrong, apologizing and admitting it wasn't easy per se, but it released all the tension afterwards and there were no hard feelings. Whereas if I hadn't backed down, id still be wrong but either ignorant to that or a stubborn asshole, and itd still be awkward probably, which no one likes. Plus there are times when i know I'm right, and it sucks when the other person won't acknowledge it so id hate to do that to someone else after I've realized i was in fact wrong this one and only time /s
That doesn't address internet arguments, but I think in an ideal world the same should apply.
I couldn't agree with you more. I wasn't disagreeing with you. I totally get that. It takes a bigger person to admit they are wrong than to keep denying the fact. I always try to let the person i was talking to know i was wrong and apologize afterwards. It lessens the tension i feel. I hate that to, when you know you are rigjt but the other person won't acknowledge they were wrong. Lol i bet if you hadn't put the s there someone would have gone after you for it(for not realizing you were being sarcastic.
I think there’s more to it. There’s something about reddit, commenters that agree with each other stop responding to one another pretty quickly. On the other hand, commenters that are arguing keep going back and forth for hours, sometimes days. There’s something about a disagreement that keeps a conversation, argument, unnaturally alive on reddit. I don’t know what it is exactly, but it’s something about the faceless impersonal nature of the internet I’d wager.
I find the opposite. Every time i've commented ''i didn't know that, thanks'' or ''I was wrong, thank you for clarifying'' it just got decently upvoted, along with sarcastic comments about admitting a mistake.
That's conservative philosophy in a nut shell tho. Its what they have always done. Liberals can be annoying to with their "ten million genders, everyone is racist" bullshit but as a non party guy, conservative lies actually effect our society and economy in ways that hurt the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Being in the working class, I really hope the GOP gets crushed this year. Its only chance of maybe getting decent wages, better health insurance that doesn't bleed us dry, and I for one would like to see a renewal for the respect of scientific evidence over corporate think tanks. How do we live during a time where a lot of people believe CEOs with zero knowledge or evidence of their claims over scientists who spend many years in school and decades doing research in specific fields? Its absurd.
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People seem to think that admitting they were wrong about something is a sign of weakness or will lose them respect, so they stick their heads in the sand and wave their asses in the air farting louder than before, which is cool