>convincing the audience I used to believe this and found myself frequently arguing for any audience that might happen by versus trying to convince my interloc

>convincing the audience I used to believe this and found myself frequently arguing for any audience that might happen by versus trying to convince my interlocutor. But, I have come to believe that, in the "emotional" domains that GP mentions, the dynamic is largely the same for any audience as well. That is, you're not winning them over either if their beliefs are already set and were also never based on reason in the first place.