I’m a state trooper. I’m right most of the time.

I'm too old for fights today and fighting you might leave me more injured too. There was a time when I got into fights and I usually won them. Today I view this as ignorant. Imagine now a "did too, did not" type of word argument. When that is over who wins? Does it matter? Maybe one person just shut the hell up to get you to stop. This is why I don't even do word fights or political arguments any longer. In the end you will not change the other person's mind. They have to do that themselves.

Was this a conversation with AI? Either way, it's nonsense. Even if you'd avoid external confrontation, you'd build up a bunch of internal confrontation and potentially anger and regret from constantly letting people take advantage of you and walk all over you with your chosen requirement to bend to their will at every turn.

That's nonsense. The only reason why society oppresses people from being right all the time is because it protects personally preferred hierarchies. Facts are much more important than power exchanges, egos, and other stupid things.

I undoubtedly have a character flaw in always wanting to be right, and have been that way since I was a young adult. At this point in my life, living in a state, Iowa, where the culture ferociously discourages confrontation and conflict, while demanding conformity. As a reaction to that, as well as the smug arrogance of most people in my city, where I am vastly outnumbered by Repubs, Trumpers, and conservative Christians, no way in hell am I going to be meek or deferential to these idiots and assholes, by not speaking up and confronting them in conversations, where they assume that everyone agrees with them and approves of their viewpoints and beliefs. I see it as a public service, lol, when I let them know that not everyone agrees with them or thinks like them, because if I don't, then under my state's rules of etiquette, known as Iowa Nice, then they get away with going along and always thinking that they are right about everything, simply because no one else, besides me, has the guts to speak up and tell them they are wrong and ignorant about many things.

Call me someone with a messianic complex, but I see it as my mission in life, or at least part of it, to disturb their blissful state of thinking everyone is like them and agrees with them, etc.. Of course, if I lived in a more progressive place, I might have a different attitude on this subject, lol..

Case in point, last night, I was with a date at an outdoor concert. As the concert was just ended, I and my date were talking about our lawn chairs and how one can get camping chairs these days. A woman around our age, a smug blonde woman who was eavesdropping on our convo, and even admitted she was doing that, said out loud to me, " Too much information", with a snotty smile on her face. Without missing a beat, I shot back at her, calmly but acidly, " We all eavesdrop, including me. But I have enough class and tact to not give unsolicited criticism or advice to strangers on how they should talk in my presence, even if they are not talking to me. Who are you, madam, the speech police?". Lucky for her, she got the point, shut up, and moved on away from us, because, as she undoubtedly figured out, I was ready to slice and dice her verbally, if she had been stupid enough to keep it up with me. I take no shit from anybody, that I don't need to take it from, so if someone starts screwing with me verbally, I will finish it, with gusto and a win. Comes from growing up in a legal family, where I learned to do verbal combat with the best of them, and can hold my own with lawyers, who are paid to argue, lol.

One reason why Christianity does not work is because turning the other cheek gives people rights that they should not have. If nobody stands up for what is right then wrong people will do wrong with impunity.