Most advice on how to argue better assumes both people want to find out what is true, and in most real arguments at least one person is defending a position they have already told other people they hold.
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It depends whether anyone is watching. Two people alone can usually get somewhere. Add an audience and both of them start defending a position instead of holding one.
People do change their minds publicly, just slowly and later, and never in the thread. The argument plants something that grows somewhere you cannot see.
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something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
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what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.