Well, more for my curiosity rather than entertainment (I was interested to see which way he would take it). Like a social experiment. By asking me to close this you're kind of just assuming he'd double-down.
If he does double-down I want to follow him down that hole and see if it's at all possible to drag him out of it. It's not about mocking for me, it's about seeing if it's possible to get a bloke in an online conversation to see where he went wrong and to change his mind.
Sam Harris has a podcast where he does this sometimes. He brings in people that vehemently disagrees with him and he tries to have productive conversations where they resolve their disagreements. It rarely works. It seems that a lot of people, instead of disavowing false notions when they are shown to be false, simply double-down on their positions. It's disturbing and interesting.
Anyway, that's why I was curious and why I left it open. Not to mock, but to see if I could ever change his mind (if he were to double-down on his position).
Last edited by Ele; Sep 13, 2016 at 02:39 PM.