I feel that the moment you see a conversation as an argument at all—and that, if the other person insists on holding a wrong opinion, they care about winning the argument more than the truth—you have already lost; you are seeing the goal as convincing the other person, your goal is manipulative even if you are right.
I feel that the moment you see a conversation as an argument at all—and that, if the other person insists on holding a wrong opinion, they care about winning the argument more than the truth—you have already lost; you are seeing the goal as convincing the other person, your goal is manipulative even if you are right.