I agree, but I think we have to accept that there isn't really a reliable way to convince people of something. People (and I include myself) struggle to discard

I agree, but I think we have to accept that there isn't really a reliable way to convince people of something. People (and I include myself) struggle to discard beliefs borne of intuitive, irrational processes. And personally, when I realize my attempts at logic are failing, it's easy to give up and condescend, that or stop trying. People don't want treatises, no matter how dressed up they are. They want tasty morsels. Forthrightness and composure, "taking the high road", all the time is draining, if not mostly ineffective.