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  It's actually a lot faster learning process if you go through with things than to keep thinking about what ifs and never throwing it out there. The only issue is, getting your ass handed to you hurts a lot and therefore, not many people are willing to go through with it.
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  It's very rare for someone to "win" a political or philosophical argument in the moment. Most "wins" come later when the information you shared or learned meets a slightly different context in a different moment and begins to make sense, even if you don't necessarily tie that epiphany back to any specific interaction, or even if there is no epiphany moment, just a slow evolution of view. >
  
  Pro tip: you can't "win" an argument. You just have to be satisficed that your point got across to the other person. >
  
  Again, it's not actually about winning. It's about learning. >
  
  No it’s about winning. >
  
  What's the prize? >
  
  The satisfaction of being, err thinking you're right? >
  
  You can beat stupid, but you don’t win >
  
  If I can point and laugh I'd consider that a win. >
  
  There’s a guy downtown who wins this way against everyone. >
  
  Six years in the Navy.
  I promise you, sometimes you have to figure out ways to explain things in a way a dumb person can understand because someone else got injured or killed. Sometimes it's just experience talking.
  "You can't make anything idiot-proof because there is always a better idiot." >
  
  
  There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.
  
  - Yosemite Park Ranger on challenges to design a bear-proof garbage can >
  
  I legitimately had an acquaintance who is an engineer (not the best) fail to open one of those trash cans, and return saying it was locked, despite us explicitly telling him how to open it ... It wasn't locked. >
  
  It's why I post on Reddit. I talk through things rather than just playing them out in my head.
  Sometimes I'm really wrong and I get my ass handed to me. That's a part of the learning process.