When you realize minds won't change:

1. Assume brainwash
2. Replace argument with ridicule
3. Make sure you have fun so that you want to do it again
4. If a good argument is presented, save it, divert and digest later. Then return to serious convo

A fine post indeed, that last one was very necessary.

Good gfround ryles for civil discourse.

MeganPhelps-Roper who married a Jewish man. We had a previous post @Douglas on the video of her Ted Talk.

I disagree.

1.) Assume bad intent.

2.) Personally attack people; don't ask questions.

3.) Get infuriated.

4.) Same as #2.

5.) Most importantly, be a dick.

Will get you far in life. Heed my advice.

Megan Phelps-Roper grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church and was picketing with signs like “gays are worthy of death” at the age of five.
She left 20 years later because strangers on Twitter changed her mind.
“Initially, the people I encountered on the platform were just as hostile as I expected,” she says. But slowly that changed. They started to ask about her beliefs, and she asked about theirs. Their conversations planted seeds of doubt, and slowly her entire worldview shifted — eventually driving her to leave the church (and the beliefs that came with it) behind.
"As kind as my friends on Twitter were, if they hadn’t actually made their arguments, it would’ve been so much harder for me to see the world in a different way. We are all a product of our upbringing, and our beliefs reflect our experiences. We can’t expect others to spontaneously change their own minds. If we want change, we have to make the case for it".