Downvoted as this reads a little like trolling, and the title isn’t exactly accurate. I believe, from your first paragraph, that you mean “how come people who disagree with me put forth bad arguments.” Someone isn’t necessarily incorrect for having poor rhetoric- its worth noting that the objections they give might not be their true objection. If I were to say “the earth is 6 billion years old because scientists have carbon dated rocks which date that far” I would have given a bad argument- carbon dating can’t be used to do that. The reason the fictional me accepts the age of the earth is probably because most scientific authorities say so, which isn’t a bad metric for our hypothetical scientific incompetent.
Its worth noting that being right on aborion, gender and race rather depends on precisely how one defines being correct.
Downvoted as this reads a little like trolling, and the title isn’t exactly accurate. I believe, from your first paragraph, that you mean “how come people who disagree with me put forth bad arguments.” Someone isn’t necessarily incorrect for having poor rhetoric- its worth noting that the objections they give might not be their true objection. If I were to say “the earth is 6 billion years old because scientists have carbon dated rocks which date that far” I would have given a bad argument- carbon dating can’t be used to do that. The reason the fictional me accepts the age of the earth is probably because most scientific authorities say so, which isn’t a bad metric for our hypothetical scientific incompetent.
Its worth noting that being right on aborion, gender and race rather depends on precisely how one defines being correct.