Yeah I've seen it happen that people on my side of an issue will choose to dunk to look cool, instead of doing something that might convince other people of our

Yeah I've seen it happen that people on my side of an issue will choose to dunk to look cool, instead of doing something that might convince other people of our beliefs. I've also seen some subreddits will try to out-radical themselves. The /r/vegan subreddit, last I checked, was leaning leftist / communist. I'm not a communist, so I quit going there. I already know how to be vegan. The big chain grocery stores around me already carry vegan products I like. People don't really go on the Internet looking to be convinced, and search engines won't necessarily bring you to convincing pages. A lot of people have been convinced by the big creators like Contrapoints or Philosophy Tube. (Or, sadly, Jordan Peterson.) For me the healthy option is probably to give up talking to people on Reddit or Hacker News about anything important at all. How about a nice game of chess?