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someacnt t1_iv0io82 wrote

Reply to comment by SovArya in How to have better arguments by fchung

I have never seen any case where the other party would even partly agree. Could you provide some concrete examples?

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SovArya t1_iv0ldrc wrote

There is this flat earth documentary that I don't recall anymore but at the end, the flat earthers did this experiment where they tried to see if the lights would be the same from a distance and they had to adjust it in the end because of the sphere shape of our planet.

It made them doubt :)

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someacnt t1_iv0zsnm wrote

Made them doubt their belief? Wow, honestly a bit unbelievable. I guess it could happen, though.

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Skarr87 t1_iv125rc wrote

I believe you’re talking about “Behind the Curve”. There’s a part in it where Patricia Steele who is a flat earth YouTuber is talking about how there’s all these conspiracy theories about her that aren’t true and she’s like “They don’t even know me”. Then she openly ponders that maybe her belief in the flat earth is the same. Alluding that maybe her belief is the same as theirs in the sense that it exists because of lack of understanding in the subject. Then she just backtracks and says naw I’m right. I was so excited watching that for a minute. It was seeing someone on the verge of understanding they didn’t have before and you could see her making the connections on her face. So close yet so far.

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iiioiia t1_iv1fgqp wrote

People enjoy observing others in this regard, but tend to be less interested in observing themselves. To be fair, it's much more difficult, and much less fun.

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