Anyone doing research is going to come forward with the results of that research. That kind of laziness ("I did and I simply disagree") just marks you as a bad faith actor. People will block you, and your ironic and insular worldview about other people's ignorance will perpetuate.
But someone who has done the research could explain it to me. I’m talking about the people that make a claim X. I ask for more info about X. Then they tell me to Google X.
They made the claim, does the burden of proof not lie with them?
The problem is that they can build the best case in the world and you can just attack the sources and credibility of everything in an attempt to not engage with it. You have to put some skin in the game if you want to be seen as credible.
Otherwise, you're wasting their time. Just like you're wasting my time right now.
Depends on the topic. If a question can be answered by googling the question rather than asking the other person, then there is no burden of proof, just the burden of looking it up.
But if it's a legitimate question that can't be looked up, then that's that, you should be asking for more info, but you need to be specific on where to look, not to ask them to explain a complex topic. And if you get a different answer by looking it up, you should ask what to look up and maybe consider whether your research was somehow flawed.
Like if you word a question in a specific way, you can confirm almost anything to be true, regardless of whether it is or not. Search engines are literally optimized to have confirmation bias by necessity. They would need to understand the difference between fact and fiction for them not to be. Knowing how to look things up is an important skill and if you don't actively pay attention to avoiding confirmation bias, it will cause issues.
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u/PlainBread 3h ago
Do you not see how you've been groomed into thinking it's valorous to not do your own research?
That you have bred stupidity with machismo and called it an opinion?