I think I would be happy in life if people argued more.
Lots more. Like in the good ole days, put forth in smoking circles and Socratic meetings.

A great deal of our world has sprung forth from consenting adults ripping each others viewpoints apart. Its a lost art. Or rather, perhaps a refined one.
I think the real problem is that we've became so used to empty attacks and general idiots assaulting our own viewpoints that we've decided there is no good involved in listening to the next affront to our world view we happen to come across.

Its a form of laziness, or perhaps a coping mechanism. I tend to think laziness.

Most people get blocked from having a crack at my viewpoints because most people are downright retarded. I could hunker down and debate something controversial quite a few times each day, but a good deal of it would just be pointing out how stupid people are. Not in a mean way, but in a "you probably shouldn't get your facts from Fox news and Wikipedia stubs if you intend to think critically about it" kind of way.

I can only face palm several hundred times the absolute mental drivel of the varied notions of abiotic oil, or noah's ark, or the physical evidence a young earth before I just begin to take the opening statements for these things as a good sign that whomever this person is, they probably don't have the capacity to add anything to the conversation.

I imagine I do the same thing to people as well. I bet more often than not I get pidgin holed into a darkened corner of other peoples minds.

My high horse tends to be a well researched opinion. Perhaps I should lead that stead around by the reins a while.

Oh well.

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