• BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I am not being sarcastic when I say this, but you have convinced me to change my mind with a single simple refutation.

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      1 year ago

      Well that is the very pinnacle of discourse my friend. Thank you very much for being intelligent enough to do it and brave enough to say it. I like to think I do the same when I encounter a sound argument. Are you a scientist by any chance?

      Edit to add:

      the elderly professor took the American by the hand and said — with passion — ‘My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years. We clapped our hands red.

      ~Richard Dawkins

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        1 year ago

        Are you a scientist by any chance?

        No, and I am barely intelligent enough to recognize that I’m stupid.

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          1 year ago

          Nope. The ability to change your thinking on a topic as emotive as this is rare in my experience, and a sign of intelligence in my opinion. As is realising you’re stupid. The vast majority of true idiots don’t.