Conversely, others have no obligation to respect your opinions.
In fact, explaining things is often a great way to lose credibility to large swaths of people, as you'll have become boring and confusing.
Monologues can easily be boring. They are hard to put together for most people and you have to have implied consent from the crowd to be monologued. People don't like to be forced to be polite to listen to anyone for more than 30 seconds.
But there are certain ways of conversing where you have time to explore deeper. Unfortunately, not everyone is open to conversation for the sake of argument.
I posit this is okay, as I wouldn’t trust your citation selection anyway!
Most of the internet makes a lot more sense if you stop thinking of it as a place to argue, and start thinking of it as a place to exchange ideas.
You give me an idea, and I’ll mull it over myself, research it myself, and confirm/adopt it or refute it myself.
None of this requires an argument or evidence, just the idea, and that’s how most people use the Internet.
> explaining things is often a great way to lose credibility
> I wouldn’t trust your citation selection anyway!
One popular earth reason is people like teaching and learning. We call it knowledge. I'm sure you're fun at parties.
If your systems can’t prevent you from falling for QAnon, flat eartherism, or the time cube, you are exploitable and are likely already actively exploited.
Believing what you read in an HN comment is a terrible idea.
If you are in those circles, speak of ideas, not people.