You Will Never Win an Argument On the Internet—Here's Why

[buckworks]

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-will-never-win-an-argument-on-the-internet-heres-why/

Every hour I spent "winning" debates was an hour I could have spent learning. Drawing. Listening to Husker Dü. Every clever comeback I crafted was mental energy I could have used to understand complex issues more deeply. Every "victory" reinforced habits that made me worse at finding the truth.

[rcjordan]

IIRC, this is the only art/comic I've purchased online...

xkcd: Duty Calls
https://xkcd.com/386/

title text: What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!

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2 copies, actually

[ergophobe]

>> Every hour I spent "winning" debates

A big step for me in personal development was when I realized that I was not benefitting from arguing with the campus preachers from the Moonies and Maranathas and the people trying to say the Eagles were Satanists because of Hotel California. Side note: years later I was standing there watching two of these crazy preachers with a friend who was a pastor at the campus Reformed church and he shook and said, "Every day I try to counsel kids that it is possible to be intelligent and a Christian, and then these people come to campus and undo all my work."

>> Duty Calls

Probably my all-time favorite XKCD.

Other contenders:

Correlation (T has the shirt)
https://xkcd.com/552/

REgular Expressions (I have the shirt)
https://xkcd.com/208/

Little Bobby Tables
https://xkcd.com/327/