1000% worth it.
If you don't do challenge things, you let bullshit flourish and that influences societal views.
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Either I change their mind, change my own, or provide thought-provoking content for the lurkers. Absolute worst case scenario I get to try out some creative insults. I feel great.
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.
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Oh, I'm about to argue with one right now you little dumbass
Nope. Even at the time I know its a bad idea. Theres a certain allure to it though. I cant always resist the bait.
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I want her feet
Screw feelings. The truth is worth discovering.
Yes, but the implication that feelings and truth are mutually exclusive is often used to bury, dismiss, or invalidate the truths around what feelings people experience, their meaning, importance, and roles in human lives/society.
It's not about stripping feelings from discovery to arrive at truth, but rather charting the truths that feelings are actually pointing to in order to discover more complete truths.
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tell that to everyone who thinks their feelings are the only truth there is.
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And I would do it again
God no. In retrospect, it's hundreds to thousands of hours of my time I could have just blocked them and been helpful to others or enriched myself. If someone really wants to argue bullshit on the internet, they're doing nothing but wasting what time humanit has left here.
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What is the Venn diagram of "People who can't stop arguing in online forums" and "People who have become addicted to obsequious, flattering LLM chats?"
Is there any overlap? Is it perfect overlap? Is it some boring in-between answer?
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People don't set up cool-looking characters in videogames, exercise, dress well, or put on makeup for others, but for themselves.
This is the same. The strangers do not matter. They are not the point.
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Hello, fellow stranger online!
Arguing with trolls is probably more likely. People who serial reply lies in posts for whatever reason. You can never gain ground on them. Maybe 1:5 times you might silence someone with logic and truth. Maybe. 1:100 times you might get someone to actually think and adjust their perspective.