| DaRev said: lol, you can't be serious. Stop wasting my time, please. In fact, just learn to Comprehend while your're Reading people's posts. |
Ah...the common response from people who realize they've backed themself up into a corner. Listen dude, there's no need to get upset and question other people'comprehension skills. You don't have to do this. This isn't the only way. You have options.
You can just man up and admit that you've made a mistake (Either a typographical error or you were just misinformed). Don't worry, you aren't going to lose any respect points for admitting you made a mistake. In fact, people would respect you more because people rarely admit when they're wrong. But if you continue to defend an assertion that's clearly false, then you will lose respect. People won't think of you as an honest poster anymore. They'll think of you as that guy that debates just to win by anymeans necessary, not to find the truth. They'll think of you as that guy that continues to argue even when he knows he's wrong. Don't be that guy. Just admit you're wrong. I know it's hard but people will respect you for it. And they will value your opinion more, because they know you can accept when you're wrong.
Or you could give up on the argument altogether and just start attacking those that respond to you. That's what it looks like you're doing now. This is not what you want to do so. This is the route to shame. Doing this will bring much dishonor to your name. Any respect you've earned on this site will be erased. What you're doing is trying to get me to stop. But you know you can't do that by continuing the debate because you know you've lost. So you try to annoy/attack/confuse me with posts like the one you just left. It's quite shameful, tbh. Please don't go down this route, I'll be very dissapointed.
You could also try to take the light-hearted approach and pretend like you were joking the entire time. This isn't as good as admitting you were wrong, but at least it leads to some closure to the discussion. It gives you and your debaters peace.
Or you could just leave the thread forever. Pretend as if you forget you were ever even here. This is a safe route. You don't gain respect nor do you lose respect. From my experience, most seem to choose this path. You admit to yourself that you're wrong, but you don't admit it to others. That's cool. At least you don't continue to annoy others with unsupported assertions. Again, it's closure so that's good. This is a cowards way out though, imo (though I admit, I've done this plenty of times). You want to get out of the debate, but you don't want to admit you're wrong. You don't want any more attention because you know you're only going to dig youself into a deeper hole. So you slip silently into the darkness, if you will.
The choice is yours.
