Discussion thread for the blog entry "I have a few Questions about arguing with idiots" by theyounghistorian77.

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I can't help you to argue effectively against fools, but I would suggest work to proof-read your posts. Random capitalisation, missing (or unnecessary) punctuation, and spelling mistakes (to name a few) belie your other talents, formidable as they are, and it somewhat reduces the impact of your argument (especially when your rebuttals can stretch across pages - you know what I'm talking about ). I should add that the content is always spot-on.

I'm really not trying to be insulting, I respect very much how you conduct yourself, but I think it matters if you want to be taken seriously.

Issue: Whether one should argue with idiots.

Ans: You shouldn't argue with idiots since they are understood as fools, half-wits; imbeciles; dolts, dunces, numskulls. And a person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25. And incapable of logic and reason as they chose to rationalize their view and as consequence will never change their minds. And therefore incapable of understanding what you mean.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/idiot

Younghistorian, have you seen the Tortucan trap video? It talks about how people can still behave like "fundies" despite a particular belief having nothing to do with religion.

I know I'm not answering your question, but I think there is some insight to be gathered from it that can lead to answer to your question.

televator wrote:Younghistorian, have you seen the Tortucan trap video? It talks about how people can still behave like "fundies" despite a particular belief having nothing to do with religion.

I know I'm not answering your question, but I think there is some insight to be gathered from it that can lead to answer to your question.

I have not seen that video, and he's still at it! Goodness me he makes me so bloody depressed!

Troll wrote:Not one confirmed gassing in WWII, and Americans have to pay $10 Million each and every day of the week to the Zionist land-theft and welfare scam Jews are operating in Palestine.

September 11, 2001 was a Zionist False, Flag. Dr. Alan Sabrosky is a Marine Vietnam Veteran and former director of the U.S. Army War College's 'Strategic Studies Institute' One year ago he stated unequivocally that Mossad did 9-11 His online supporting article is titled: 9/11 - The US Military Knows Israel Did It

Wow!

All I have to say is that I understand that you are not arguing to win him over, but to win over the minds of a third party viewer. However, you really need to know when to cut your losses. Is it really worth your time writing out responses to such dribble when it seems obvious that he is nothing more than a troll?

I enjoy your work, but sometimes cutting your losses and moving on to something more fruitful is the best option. You can see here when I argued with a creationists (granted not as insane as this one) for two months before treating his trolling like it should have been treated from the beginning.

he_who_is_nobody wrote:Wow!

All I have to say is that I understand that you are not arguing to win him over, but to win over the minds of a third party viewer. However, you really need to know when to cut your losses. Is it really worth your time writing out responses to such dribble when it seems obvious that he is nothing more than a troll?

I enjoy your work, but sometimes cutting your losses and moving on to something more fruitful is the best option. You can see here when I argued with a creationists (granted not as insane as this one) for two months before treating his trolling like it should have been treated from the beginning.

I thank you for your compliment.

And i'll take your point. Im thinking about leaving him to a holocaust specialist as there are only so many conspiricy theories i can rebutt. I cannot deal with them all and yet sadly he seems totaly immersed in all of them!

I guess it doesn't help that i also have a "no surrender" mentality, I dont know if you can pick that up, But i will admit to it here at least. It's annoying because me going away i feel makes me look defeated. He' not the first idiot i've ever dealt with on the tube. But most usualy go away after two or three rounds of heavy bombardment. Your Creationist and my Holocaust denier are the exceptions.

theyounghistorian77 wrote:I have not seen that video, and he's still at it! Goodness me he makes me so bloody depressed!

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theyounghistorian77 wrote:

Troll wrote:Not one confirmed gassing in WWII, and Americans have to pay $10 Million each and every day of the week to the Zionist land-theft and welfare scam Jews are operating in Palestine.

September 11, 2001 was a Zionist False, Flag. Dr. Alan Sabrosky is a Marine Vietnam Veteran and former director of the U.S. Army War College's 'Strategic Studies Institute' One year ago he stated unequivocally that Mossad did 9-11 His online supporting article is titled: 9/11 - The US Military Knows Israel Did It

It took just 2 seconds to find this: http://adamholland.blogspot.com/2010/05 ... -jews.html
About this Alan Sabrosky lunatic.
But again, that must be a ZOG plot.

theyounghistorian77 wrote:
I have not seen that video, and he's still at it! Goodness me he makes me so bloody depressed!

Watch it. You'll see.

televator linked to the thread already.

theyounghistorian77 wrote:I guess it doesn't help that i also have a "no surrender" mentality, I dont know if you can pick that up, But i will admit to it here at least. It's annoying because me going away i feel makes me look defeated.

I did pick up your no surrender attitude, I have that attitude as well when I am arguing with creationists (it is easy to have when you know you are right). However, I learned that not all battles are worth fighting when I started an argument with a creationist named Hume1947. He was an active quote miner, which drove me nuts. However, after arguing with him for several months, it became apparent that no matter what I said to him, he was going to keep his preconceived notion, no matter how wrong I made it look. I left that argument and I felt defeated as well, but there really is no winning when arguing with a troll.

theyounghistorian77 wrote:He' not the first idiot i've ever dealt with on the tube. But most usualy go away after two or three rounds of heavy bombardment. Your Creationist and my Holocaust denier are the exceptions.

This is true. So far, Hume1947 and Remensum have been the only creationists that I just had to stop responding to, because nothing I said would get through to them. To be perfectly honest, I believe that both of them are simply trolls, much like your Holocaust denier, and nothing any of them has said on the Ethernet is a representation of what they actually believe. They are just doing it for kicks and giggles. Much like our new resident troll Царь Славян.