On 21 March 2015 at 22:35, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I remember a long discussion where John ended up changing his claim that > step 3 was wrong to it just being trivial. But then he still refused to > keep reading. At this point I decided he was not serious about the issue. > Trivial is good, the argument is being developed in small steps after all. But John appears to just not want to think about it, he's sure it's wrong and he refuses to contemplate the possibility that *he's* wrong, even though he's the only person who thinks he has a good argument, or indeed any argument at all. This reminds me of trying to argue with my son (who's 16) - he's sure he's right and won't even think about the opposing viewpoint. That's probably normal when you're 16, but ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
