would you ever actually change your mind from arguing with someone? can you genuinely tell yourself that if someone showed you compelling evidence against your worldview you would believe them?i see lots of arguments on this board and they just seem masturbatory. do productive conversations exist or are we all too defensive to actually listen to eachother?
>>82677876>would you ever actually change your mind from arguing with someone?It depends on what we're arguing about, but yeah I'm willing to change my mind on a lot of things.>can you genuinely tell yourself that if someone showed you compelling evidence against your worldview you would believe them?Right away? Hell no. But I would definitely think about it and change how I see things over time.>I see lots of arguments on this board and they just seem masturbatory.Yeah a lot of the arguing that goes on here (which is mostly just baiting) is mostly done for the feeling of being right. There really is no other end goal because you don't really get anything out of seriously debating with people on 4chan.To answer the question in the subject, I do think it is possible for people to change their minds but not in a way where they do a complete 180 flip. change is a very slow and gradual thing most of the time and I've never seen somebody completely cast away all former aspects of themselves even after changing. Changing somebody's entire worldview is especially tough because they usually hangout with people that share that same worldview and also have the algorithms of different social medias constantly feeding them content / posts that reinforce the idea that their view is the correct one.
>>82677876>from arguingno way. I'd make a mental note to research things people might mention but changing your mind from an argument is peak retard behavior. Your mind shouldn't be so rigidly set on how you believe the world works for it to change so easily either. If anything you're just updating your prior beliefs from new information to push you slightly towards new ideas but still mostly in line with what is most likely true.
>>82677876>would you ever actually change your mind from arguing with someone?If I'm willing to change, sureThese things, rarely if ever they change from JUST one (1) argumentBoth parties must have struggled with the issue for years, and the one argument that finally breaks the camel's back, that just shifts them over to "your" side for a whileSometimes it doesn't even have to be an argument, sometimes it's something personal within their own livesHumanity has always been about compromise anons
